David Kipping

Dumb life for the vast majority, a brief period of biological intelligence, and then an extended period of artificial intelligence that they transition to.

Then we would be

in a unique and special moment in galactic history that would be of particular interest for any anthropologists out there in the galaxy, right?

This would be the time that you would want to study a civilization very carefully.

You wouldn't want to interfere with it.

You would just want to see how it plays out, kind of similar to the ancestor simulations that are sometimes talked about with the simulation argument, that you are able to observe perhaps your own origins and study how the transformation happens.

And so, yeah, that has for me recently been throwing the Fermi paradox a bit on its head.

And this idea of the zoo hypothesis that we may be monitored, which has for a long time been sort of seen as a fringe idea, even amongst the SETI community.

But if we live in this truly transitional period, it adds a lot of impetus to that idea, I think.

No, not necessarily.

They may do, but it may not be necessarily.

I mean, I guess we're talking about the difference here between sort of an AGI, artificial general intelligence, or consciousness, which are distinct ideas, and you can certainly have one without the other.

So I could imagine— I would disagree with this certainly in that statement.

Okay, well, I mean, to a certain degree, chat GPT-3 has a level of intelligence already.

It's not a general intelligence, but it displays properties of intelligence with no consciousness.

Again, I would disagree.

Okay, okay.

Well...

I don't know.

Correct.