I found Eliezer Yudkowsky’s “blinking stars” story (That Alien Message — https://search.app/uYn3eZxMEi5FWZEw5) persuasive. That story also has a second layer of having the extra smart Earth with better functioning institutions, but at the level of intuition you are going for it is probably unnecessary and would detract from the message. I think imagining a NASA-like organisation dedicated to controlling a remote robot at say 1 cycle of control loop per month (where it is perhaps corresponding to 1/30 of a second for the aliens), showing how totally screwed up the aliens are in this scenario, then flipping it around, should be at least somewhat emotionally persuasive.
Ah yes, Rational Animations did a great video of that story. That did make superintelligence more graspable, but you know I had watched it and forgotten about it. I think it showed how our human civilization is vulnerable to other intelligences (aliens), but didn’t still made the superintelligence concept one that that easy to grok.
I found Eliezer Yudkowsky’s “blinking stars” story (That Alien Message — https://search.app/uYn3eZxMEi5FWZEw5) persuasive. That story also has a second layer of having the extra smart Earth with better functioning institutions, but at the level of intuition you are going for it is probably unnecessary and would detract from the message. I think imagining a NASA-like organisation dedicated to controlling a remote robot at say 1 cycle of control loop per month (where it is perhaps corresponding to 1/30 of a second for the aliens), showing how totally screwed up the aliens are in this scenario, then flipping it around, should be at least somewhat emotionally persuasive.
Ah yes, Rational Animations did a great video of that story. That did make superintelligence more graspable, but you know I had watched it and forgotten about it. I think it showed how our human civilization is vulnerable to other intelligences (aliens), but didn’t still made the superintelligence concept one that that easy to grok.