The Parable of Alien Chess
A parable on the Logical Postivist “interpretation” of scientific models.
Suppose an alien race comes to Earth and wants to observe our games.They are very interested in chess, despite the fact that they have eyes with properties that make it impossible to make out what actually happens on a chess board.(The whites and blacks and squares all blur together.)
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Except this time, there were these huge carbon supplies in the ground that none of the alien scientists anticipated (what kind of sane planet has that, the local life would usually break it all down before it became geological) and the planet got written off
Humanity is a failed alien terraforming op: Usually newly uplifted civilizations, with very little intervention after the initial seeding, reliably consume all the surface fuel and turn the place into a nice cool desert, and what’s left can be psionically reprogrammed
alien thoughts encoded in the growth of ice crystals, every evening a brief instant of awareness, every morning oblivion
and human and alien alike, photography’s stolen souls are bound up in servers and wires around the world, keeping a titanic containment grid humming around The Deterrent
airships in alien skies collecting moisture directly from the clouds, skyspiders at the heart of vast condenser nets
the shambling revenant of old money / the monstrous chimera of new money / the eldrich and ungraspable nature of financialized money, an alien invader from outside, whose gifts become leaves in the sunlight. Do not eat in their house.
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Band name of the day: alien fire (from the mercy seat)
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Occasionally the simulators get wistful about when they still did client work because when those wanted last-minute-changes, at least their motives weren’t completely alien
when the aliens are lonely, that’s a thirst contact
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Provided one can catch up, generation ships are an anthropologist’s treasure trove: Some are past societies preserved in amber, others are, for lack of a better word, highly fermented, have been invaded by aliens or entered some weird new symbiosis with stowaway mushrooms
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At the planet’s core sleeps an alien exploration vessel, stranded in this orbit billions of years ago when there was only a dust disk around a star that had just ignited
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A gentle kind of first contact: The aliens arrive in orbit, pledge to answer one question per year and not more. Grand and important committees form to choose the best questions, still sometimes the answers are useless, yet other times they decide wars before they’re fought
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Lurking in an orbit hidden between our satellites, the alien quietly watches, extremely interested yet content to never exchange a word with us
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trying to fit in, the alien becomes a cloud, but its churning and occasional rainbow flashes betray it
Few are up to it, those who become good at it are often foundlings who’ve grown up among aliens, or have worn the bodies of both species
@skingrapher@skingrapher.com Cannot predict now
↬~↭: “rocks against your belly, always, new substance coming from above tickling your surface, first alien and cold, soon dissolving in you”
aliens arrive in thumb-sized spaceships and battle it out with the ants while we watch, bemused
A dying neon light flickers in the sky, the air fills with alien scents of decomposing physics, graffiti appears on the insides of eggshells
Real humans died out long ago. We are simulacra inserted by alien exosociologists and then forgotten
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stranded in your escape capsule, you learn the language of the stars and let alien constellations sing you into sleep
us: “it’s infiltrating us! aaaaAAA”↵alien: “ow these are dimensions of pain I didn’t know existed, how the hell do you cope, aaaAAAA”
setting: the alien is an infectious space fungus that can grow human-shaped fruiting bodies, but we shape it as much as it shapes us
The alien fleet is still parsecs away but their gods have already arrived, ancient sagas rewrite themselves to accommodate new protagonists
: the giddy mix of transgression, relief and alienation/derealization of being someone else
@allgebrah@www.synkretie.net Loved the low-res and alien story!
@allgebrah@www.synkretie.net Loved the low-res and alien story!
During contact with the aliens, we find out that their god is real, really did create the universe, and we’re just some sort of byproduct
The aliens called and uh, we used those monoliths wrong, they were meant to have all sorts of arms and not be glowing cargo cult bricks
“These pyramids didn’t build themselves”↵Actually they did, they’re asleep right now, or did you expect the aliens to be carbon based
wakes up from cryosleep what year is it↵”still 2017 but we figured you might want to see the aliens before they depart again”
The psychonauts warned us, but too late. When the aliens did invade, they came from inner space, occupied our brains, burst from our eyes
2200: Humanity captures Voyager 1, retrieves the golden disk, breathes a sigh of relief. No alien eyes would ever see these selfies.
You run it, of course. It’s… not that alien, actually. There’s still humans, some good, some bad. And then, in it, another diamond shows up.
lost+found but for minds: some with owners missing, some simply refusing to return, others not even human, probably lost by alien tourists
The alien has been in orbit for a billion years but never made contact, transfixed instead by volcanoes growing, continents melting away
Chime triggers move triggers chime, an autocatalytic dance through which run alien melodious thoughts, free from the shackles of language.
we trail dead pixels that heal only slowly, an alien sizzling on frequencies that should be inaudible, the taste of empty space and loss
We gave the Internet to the trees. Their cyberspace is alien, they grow roots through it instead of moving about, commune in giant rhizomes
Alien historians studying post-hivemind humanity:↵*It says here that man was once many, not one*↵%Stars help us, one is scary enough%
The first aliens we meet turn out to be boltzmann brains in our particle accelerators. You know, those places with the deadly radiation.
You feel dizzy as they draw your nectar, whole dream worlds flash by, but ｏｈ the pollen they leave, alien ideas that melt into your mind
Your mission: truck the disk containing the alien transmission to the forgotten supercomputer, found in an incomplete copy of archive․org
Split the morpheme to uncover forbidden meaning. Forge alien thoughts into a linguistic strangelet bomb and with it raze the noosphere.
The clock is so old it has evolved parasites: Gear assemblages in odd places mimic the mechanism but show alien times with stolen seconds.
alien magic betrays their own perceptual biases, so it is incompatible to ours and exactly as incomprehensible as their minds
we can try to find more alien processes (like commerce) or try to smash the box: what would unstructure and antistructure look like?
the aliens left us powerful artifacts but we mistook them for overcompressed jpegs
We have met no aliens because none share our megalomania. Where we cover ever greater distances, they colonize the space between the atoms.
dreamsoon rainstorms in the tropics↵deserts under the oppressive light of an alien mind↵librarians on the poles↵writers in temperate zones
via roko’s basilisk, a million mes are being tortured by an alien AI right now. How come I don’t notice? This is exceedingly unlikely.
alien memes, embedded in the movement of the stars themselves, crossing the transmission barrier through astrology and finding new hosts
chat with hot alien civilizations in your local group!