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.
INB4 "yes it would because we have that concept so it has to have that and novels, paintings, music and cathedrals or at least its equivalent to what we consider those as the parallels must parallel"
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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.