and we are either completely left alone or have been put in a simulation, in which case occasional UFO sightings don’t seem like an optimal feature of the outcome.
Agreed. A way of using our matter (the earth) for something else, without killing us.
So I’ve been thinking about that. For any simulator, there are things they do and don’t care about capturing accurately in the simulation. I’d guess that the simulation has a lot to do with whether we hold to the reciprocal kind-colonization pacts that they’re committed to themselves. For that, it’s important that the “we” is preserved, we have to be allowed to develop without any major interventions, so that we self-actualize, so that the thing being tested is really us. There may be interventions that they can make that wouldn’t interfere with the integrity of the test, that would actually enhance its accuracy, reduce the random noise of a perfectly natural history.
I don’t have an idea of what that would look like. It’s not obvious to me that it would look like UFOs. I can tell a story where it does, but it’s weak so far: To induce us to consider the possibility that our neighbors are already here, without confirming it (or even, before disconfirming it later on (“ah, turns out it was all a ridiculously implausible propulsion research program all along, nothing to see here”)). And maybe that leads us to… no. I shouldn’t go on, today. I just don’t understand what this noise-reduction means and how it should work. I need to think about that more.
Agreed. A way of using our matter (the earth) for something else, without killing us.
So I’ve been thinking about that. For any simulator, there are things they do and don’t care about capturing accurately in the simulation. I’d guess that the simulation has a lot to do with whether we hold to the reciprocal kind-colonization pacts that they’re committed to themselves. For that, it’s important that the “we” is preserved, we have to be allowed to develop without any major interventions, so that we self-actualize, so that the thing being tested is really us.
There may be interventions that they can make that wouldn’t interfere with the integrity of the test, that would actually enhance its accuracy, reduce the random noise of a perfectly natural history.
I don’t have an idea of what that would look like. It’s not obvious to me that it would look like UFOs. I can tell a story where it does, but it’s weak so far: To induce us to consider the possibility that our neighbors are already here, without confirming it (or even, before disconfirming it later on (“ah, turns out it was all a ridiculously implausible propulsion research program all along, nothing to see here”)).
And maybe that leads us to… no. I shouldn’t go on, today. I just don’t understand what this noise-reduction means and how it should work. I need to think about that more.