Look Out, It's Coming
We Will Meet Our Betters Avi Loeb in Scientific American : "If the Perseverance rover finds evidence for microbes on Mars, our self-esteem will not be affected since it is obvious that we are more intelligent than they are. But if the rover bumps into the wreckage of a spacecraft far more advanced than we ever produced, our ego will be challenged." We WILL find evidence of life with science and tech incomprehensibly ahead of where we are now. Maybe not tomorrow, or the next decades, or the next centuries. (Too bad we don't live long enough to catch more of these rare events.) But it is inevitable. They may be so far superior to us they will seem like giant gods. Hey, Fellas. Look at this little blue one. Probably a giant metal mind, probabilities be told. Biological creatures, at least on oxygen planets, are vulnerable to death and decay, even with great technology. Artificial intelligence will inevitably evolve into superintelligence. At that juncture SI will preva