David Kipping

like they'll be astonished at the shit we got up to and uh there'll be a lesson there for them but it's always an opportunity for us to contact them because we could leave them a message right we could put a beacon on the moon we could put something there and we could be like hey guys this is everything we learned this is all our science this is all our art these are our songs unload an update every couple of years right do like a foundation type thing and i think i think that is

If I had to bet on the odds of what is the most likely way we're going to make contact with another intelligent species in a meaningful way, I think it's going to be descendants of us.

Wow.

Deep descendants who will be a completely different species.

Supremacy.

They're going to do it.

Yeah.

It kind of creates a problem though for the Fermi paradox, right?

Because then if this is the inevitable outcome and maybe you can explain why we don't see engineered stars because –

a chimpanzee brain is basically just not smart enough to ever do that.

No matter how hard we try, our dumb little brains will never figure that out.

And maybe the electronic brain's not motivated to do it.

Maybe.

I mean, that's where it gets tricky.

Like, what is the motivation of this new thing we're creating?

One might imagine all he wants to do is solve math problems or something, right?

But whatever it is, if it's driven by computation,

That computation is limited by energy.

And we all know this, right, because the amount of energy these data centers are now consuming for, you know, for meta and for chat GBT, like it's gigantic.

So these AI civilizations will be very energy hungry.