Given the level of competency you are ascribing to alien AI
Yes. This post is writing a scary story, then being convinced by how scary it is. “You can’t prove it’s impossible!” is not a reason to waste any effort considering this negligible probability, just because humans are very bad at ignoring negligible probabilities.
I’m wondering to what degree scary campfire stories for amateur philosophers could be said to be a local literary form.
Yes. This post is writing a scary story, then being convinced by how scary it is. “You can’t prove it’s impossible!” is not a reason to waste any effort considering this negligible probability, just because humans are very bad at ignoring negligible probabilities.
I’m wondering to what degree scary campfire stories for amateur philosophers could be said to be a local literary form.