I think intelligent tool making life is rare but there is plenty of room for those far, far in advance of us. Robert Bradbury, who thought up M-Brains, said he did not think truly hyper advanced entities would bother communicating with us. Being able to process the entire history of human thought in a few millionths of a second puts them further away from us than we are from nematodes. But then that might not be giving them credit for their intelligence and resources, as they might wish to see how well their simulations have done compared to reality.
Foresight Intelligent Cooperation Group.
2021 program & apply to join: https://foresight.org/intelligent-cooperation/
Anders Sandberg, Oxford University.
Game Theory of Cooperating with Extraterrestrial Intelligence and Future Civilizations.
Anders Sandberg’s research at the Future of Humanity Institute centres on management of low-probability high-impact risks, estimating the capabilities of future technologies, and very long-range futures. Anders is a Senior Research Fellow on the ERC UnPrEDICT Programme. Topics of particular interest include global catastrophic risk, cognitive biases, cognitive enhancement, collective intelligence, neuroethics, and public policy. He is research associate to the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, and the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics. He is on the advisory boards of a number of organisations and often debates science and ethics in international media. Anders has a background in computer science, neuroscience and medical engineering. He obtained his Ph.D. in computational neuroscience from Stockholm University, Sweden, for work on neural network modelling of human memory.
JOIN VISION WEEKEND 2021 (US & France, Dec 2021)
Where: Starting at the Internet Archive, a rocket company, and ship in San Francisco on Dec 4 & 5 culminating at a laboratory for the future disguised as a stunning castle outside of Paris on Dec 11 & 12.