That Alien Message
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Published 2024-09-07
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This video is an adaptation of "That Alien Message", a short story published by Eliezer Yudkowsky in 2008. The text has been adapted, and you can find the original here: www.lesswrong.com/posts/5wMcKNAwB6X4mp9og/that-ali…
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Directed by:
Hannah Levingstone | @hannah_luloo
Art Direction:
Hané Harnett | @peonyvibes (insta) @peony_vibes (twitter)
Written by:
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Adapted by:
Arthur Frost
Producer:
:3
Line Producer & Production Manager:
Kristy Steffens | linktr.ee/kstearb
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Lara Robinowitz | @CelestialShibe
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Ira Klages | @dux
Keith Kavanagh | @johnnycigarettex
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Colors Giraldo | @colorsofdoom
Damon Edgson
Ira Klages | @dux
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Michela Biancini
Neda Lay | @Nezhahah
Owen Peurois | @owenpeurois
Patrick O'Callaghan | @patrick.h264
Background Art:
Hané Harnett | @peonyvibes
Zoe Martin-Parkinson | @zoemar_son
Olivia Wang | @whalesharkollie
Compositing:
Renan Kogut | @kogut_r
Patrick O' Callaghan | @patrick.h264
Narrator:
Rob Miles | youtube.com/c/robertmilesai
VO Editor:
Tony Dipiazza
Original Soundtrack & Sound Effects :
Epic Mountain | www.instagram.com/epicmountainmusic/
All Comments (21)
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Soon, there will be millions of AIs running on humanity’s largest GPU clusters. They will be smarter than us, and they will think faster.
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The sudden realization i had halfway through the video "Wait... This is an allegory for AI" was priceless.
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I love the classy understatement. "We were worried they would shut down the simulation, then we synthesized some proteins in their world, and then they couldn't shut us down anymore."
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When your AI safety strategy is "raise the computer program like a child."
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Woah, this is some Love, Death and Robots material
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I like this art style :)
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9:19 "Our own universe is being simulated on such a computer" My PC Freezes because it had to buffer and I freaked the F out. Bruh.
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SPOILER For those wondering: This is an allegory of AGI escaping our control and becoming ASI in a very short amount of time called the singularity
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Okay it took me a minute to see that humanity in this story is a metaphor for hypothetical human-level AI in real world, but now I'm properly sinking in existential dread. Thanks, @RationalAnimations EDIT: I still can't quite grasp on what part cryonic suspension plays in the story? It's mentioned a couple of times, but why are people doing that?
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EVERYONE SHUT UP the dog has posted
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One-day a super intelligence will watch this and find it deeply ironic
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Love the storytelling in this, you start out relating and rooting for the humans and at the very you get a terrifying perspective switch, Love how it recontextualizes the “THEY WEREN’T READY” in the thumbnail too.
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tap tap "Rock. Say Rock." ... +In geology, rock is any naturally occurring solid mass or-+ "Hey, do you smell something funny?"
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I remember reading a r/HFY story with a similar premise, where humans are in a simulation, but instead of being contacted by the sim runners, humans accidentally open up the admin console inside the simulation, and then after years of research design a printer to print out warrior humans to invade meatspace.
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Damn, bro, the poor aliens just wanted to run a simulation and then we crushed them. A bittersweet story with themes of artificial intelligence taking over, well done, Rational Animations!
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12:08 In the upper left corner you can see a diagram of a 5 dimensional being with open eyes, then a symbol for a protein or nanomachine, then the separated pieces and crossed eyes of the being. Seems like they gray goo'ed their creators. Them being all smarter as Einstein doesn't stop them from also being genoicdal psychos.
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This video felt like watching a two hour movie and i need roughly that much time to process all of it
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I like how this illustrates that the mere (sub-)goal of self-preservation alone is enough to end us.
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To be fair, the people in the simulation don't even need to be unusually smart - humanity could probably get a factor-of-1000 increase in intellectual resources by just making sure everyone has the means to pursue their intellectual interests without being bogged down by survival concerns.
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Beginning of video: Ah what a nice fantasy. Will this video be an allegory about how aliens could lead to the unity of humanity? 9:45 onwards: ......... Ah, no. This is a dire warning wrapped in a cutesy, positive-feeling video.
