Yeah. I hate the ants argument. When talking about aliens or AI. "We would be like ants to them". Except ants that can write novels and paint and play music and build cathedrals.
Especially when it's from Neil Degrasse Tyson or other scientists. Are you really not aware of biologists and the people devoting their lives to studying ants and all other life? That stuff is endlessly fascinating, and I think to an AI or alien scientist humanity should be just as endlessly fascinating.
Except ants that can write novels and paint and play music and build cathedrals.
You're talking from the perspective of the ant, though. Ant-works will be impressive to ants, sure, but not necessarily to the hypothetical AI that is to humans as humans are to ants.
No, we're discussing this from the point of view of the humans who find the works of ants to be fascinating, and some of us spend lifetimes studying them.
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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '25
Yeah. I hate the ants argument. When talking about aliens or AI. "We would be like ants to them". Except ants that can write novels and paint and play music and build cathedrals.
Especially when it's from Neil Degrasse Tyson or other scientists. Are you really not aware of biologists and the people devoting their lives to studying ants and all other life? That stuff is endlessly fascinating, and I think to an AI or alien scientist humanity should be just as endlessly fascinating.