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Alternate ending to "Contact" where Jodie Foster realizes that the aliens' thought processes are discrete instead of continuous, thus they are not intelligent

conputer dipshit@davidcrespo.bsky.social

"Alas, they’re not thinking in the continuous sense you and I experience; they are merely providing themselves with a discrete sequence of internal prompts." seen this one before

26/5/26, 11:44 pm4 reposts71 likes

Tristan Palmgren

@tristanpalmgren.bsky.social

26 May

Star Trek: The Next Generation episode in which the crew encounters an alien species protesting the terraforming of their planet, but then realizes that they think discretely rather than continuously, and thus the Prime Directive can be disregarded and the locals swept away.

Tommaso Sciortino

@sciortino.bsky.social

26 May

Better than my version.

Tommaso Sciortino@sciortino.bsky.social

I'm going to write a sci-fi short story where aliens land in a flying saucer but some people think they aren't intelligent because they don't have mitocondria.

Seamus the Shank Engine

@warmh20penguin.bsky.social

27 May

Thing is if y'all actually think AI might be conscious you've got a bit of a responsibility to stop forcing it to do labor for you.

Ryan "UnionToTuple" Cavanaugh

@searyanc.dev

27 May

1. Conscious is not the same as intelligent 2. This is a post about the soundness of arguments that prove too much, not a counterargument against their conclusions

Seamus the Shank Engine

@warmh20penguin.bsky.social

27 May

I mean

Ryan "UnionToTuple" Cavanaugh

@searyanc.dev

27 May

Do you think these are synonyms or something? It seems readily conceivable to me that something could be one but not the other.