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For all those wondering, this is not about aliens.

It's just occurred to me that if Aliens wanted to take over Earth...They could progressively leak scientific secrets, under the disguise of normal scientific progress. This would lead us create a Trojan-ed AGI, that would take over everything, and just build spaceships to ship them all our Palladium...Just imagine a giant spaceship on the way to Proxima Centauri full of stolen catalytic converters....

Can't get into the details, but it seems there is a way to convert Palladium into Dilithium Crystals. When you achieve that all hell breaks loose....

Aliens already took over earth, we are the aliens.

Yeah, but we have no Tentacles, so we are considered a kind of subspecies, and ostracized in Galactic social circles...

The cuttlefish and the octopi are the real aliens. You might not think they pose much of a threat. But of course, that’s merely because they are intentionally dormant at the moment. Once the AGI is complete, and the spaceships have been built.. it’ll be “so long and thanks for the fish” just like Douglas Adams predicted except he suspected the wrong species.

Inventing technology is hard under water, hence octopuses created us to build them spaceships so they can go back home.

I like it!

This figures in the plot of A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge

Never read it. Sound interesting, and added to reading list. Maybe I am a just an LLM based Replicant...

Highly recommend it, as well as it's ... sequel, sort of? A Fire Upon The Deep.

(Though I would skip the third book in the series, personally.)

Also, somewhat in The Lives of Tao, by Wesley Chu.

Sort of the opposite of the Three Body Problem, haha

Before reading it I thought their AI components detected life beyond Earth, basically what SETI has been doing for decades [1].

[1] https://www.seti.org/

That's what NASA wants us to think.

How can you be sure? Have you asked them?

tbh, I didn't think it would be aliens, I thought it would be ITAR related.

Disappointed.

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