That Alien Message

by Eliezer Yudkowsky

Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction

10 pages, Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 2008

About the author

Eliezer Yudkowsky is a founding researcher of the field of AI alignment and played a major role in shaping the public conversation about smarter-than-human AI. He appeared on Time magazine's 2023 list of the 100 Most Influential People In AI, was one of the twelve public figures featured in The New York Times's "Who's Who Behind the Dawn of the Modern Artificial Intelligence Movement," and has been discussed or interviewed in The New Yorker, Newsweek, Forbes, Wired, Bloomberg, The Atlantic, The Economist, The Washington Post, and many other venues.

Reviews

[J_BlueFlower · Rating 4 out of 5]

I recently read Bostrom: Are You Living In a Computer Simulation?

It must have inspired a lot of fiction, so I googled around and found a few. Including this. There is an almost similar story about researchers at CERN accidentally opening the equivalent of a developer window. Goodread's does not allow links, so try google for “It was the late 21st century before humanity finally discovered the truth. Reality it turns out didn't really exist.”

I liked the CERN-version better (funnier), but I also liked the extreme change in time perspective in this one.

[Jochem Hölscher · Rating 5 out of 5]

most intuitive description of a super intelligence I've encountered thus far