If it did actually turn out that aliens had visited Earth, I’d be pretty willing to completely scrap the entire Yudkowskian implied-model-of-intelligent-species-development and heavily reevaluate my concerns around AI safety.
If that turned out to be the case, my preliminary conclusion would be that the hard physical limits of technology are much lower than I’d previously believed.
If it did actually turn out that aliens had visited Earth, I’d be pretty willing to completely scrap the entire Yudkowskian implied-model-of-intelligent-species-development and heavily reevaluate my concerns around AI safety.
A lot of cosmological-type facts have this effect. That’s why people are so occupied by them.
If that turned out to be the case, my preliminary conclusion would be that the hard physical limits of technology are much lower than I’d previously believed.