Damien Broderick wrote:
>
> Mike the Archangel from Mars is right
> because... well, because *that's the way things are*, and he *knows it*
> because he can speak *Martian, the Truth Language* and hence kill his
> enemies at a thought. A vision of a post-Singularity Power? Maybe - but a
> troubling one. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
GAAACCKK!
PTOOH! PTOOH! PTOOH!
*That's* your idea of a PSE? Mike the Moron? Heinlein in drag? *Him*? Great, now I've thrown up all over my keyboard.
If it looks human, if it interacts with humans as equals, if it has anthropomorphic emotions: It *does not* count as an *alien*, much less a Power.
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sentience@pobox.com Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
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