Why does the Race Ending of the AI-2027 Forecast claim that “there are compelling theoretical reasons to expect no aliens for another fifty million light years beyond that”? If it’s false, then sapient alien lifeforms should also be moral patients in a way. For example, this implies that all or almost all resources in their home system (and, apparently, some part of space around them) should belong to them, not to humans or a human-aligned AI. And that’s ignoring the possibility that humans encounter a planet having the chance to generate a sapient lifeform...
Why does the Race Ending of the AI-2027 Forecast claim that “there are compelling theoretical reasons to expect no aliens for another fifty million light years beyond that”? If it’s false, then sapient alien lifeforms should also be moral patients in a way. For example, this implies that all or almost all resources in their home system (and, apparently, some part of space around them) should belong to them, not to humans or a human-aligned AI. And that’s ignoring the possibility that humans encounter a planet having the chance to generate a sapient lifeform...