What if in a couple of weeks, Earth is suddenly attacked by by outer-space Aliens, the aliens are being led by a human from Earth but is an ex-human at the time of the attack; the Aliens take over every government of every major country in the world, and set up collaborator governments (with humans). At this time, it's not clear why the Aliens are even interested in a backward species living on a backwater planet. But one hypothesis is that one of their goals is to make humans achieve singularity (think of the book "singularity is near" by Ray Kurzweil). Now the main question is, would you side with the Aliens or would you rebel against your new alien overlords?

green.at

Austria1459 Posts

April 25 2010 14:41 GMT

Sounds like they are nice fellows ... if they can help us i'm ok with it.

As long as i dont have to clean their dishes :D

micronesia

United States24698 Posts

April 25 2010 14:44 GMT

I'm not sure if I understand what you mean about the aliens' goal...

In general I'd say if we are completely overwhelmed go along while assessing the situation and don't act up until we have some reasonable chance of success.

BuGzlToOnl

United States5918 Posts

April 25 2010 14:45 GMT

Gandalf

Pakistan1905 Posts

April 25 2010 15:13 GMT

I'd definitely support the aliens. Especially if they were Vulcan.

seppolevne

Canada1681 Posts

April 25 2010 15:17 GMT

Reaching technological singularity would be awesome, and humans are pretty lame. Go aliens!

seRapH

United States9758 Posts

April 25 2010 15:21 GMT

i'd probably be too busy playing starcraft to care.

ShroomyD

Australia245 Posts

April 25 2010 15:33 GMT

I'd be sworn to kill every last one! every last one!!!

Demoninja

United States1190 Posts

April 25 2010 15:43 GMT

I came into this thread expecting a serious discussion, and I found it. I would definitely side with the aliens because from your description it seems like we'll just have the same world except everyone would be under the same rules.

nimysa

United States383 Posts

April 25 2010 15:44 GMT

#10

To Micronesia:

Basically transcendence for something but it's not clear why or for what

KwarK

United States42866 Posts

April 25 2010 16:26 GMT

#11

It'd be fairly easy for the alien overlords to make a crude youtube video saying "help the aliens because they want to help you become awesome". However given they're looking for meek subjects to rule I wouldn't entirely trust that. Obviously I'm in favour of transcendence but given that the media is pretty much under control I wouldn't be entirely convinced when I heard rumours it was for our own good.
In practice, I'd still continue my life as normal.

Megalisk

United States6095 Posts

April 25 2010 16:40 GMT

#12

If they were aliens like this I would side with them.

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RedTerror

New Zealand742 Posts

April 25 2010 16:50 GMT

#13

I don't get why the aliens have to take over for us to achieve singularity or why they even care if we reach it. I probably wouldn't believe their bullshit excuse and would rebel is some fashion.

Olorin.SVK

Slovakia136 Posts

April 25 2010 17:13 GMT

#14

Well, we all saw in HL2 what has to be done. Give me a crowbar.
But I dont know what exactly singularity is, if it is a good thing, than let them come and lets singularize baby. :-D

TheAntZ

Israel6248 Posts

April 25 2010 17:21 GMT

#15

On April 26 2010 01:26 KwarK wrote:
It'd be fairly easy for the alien overlords to make a crude youtube video saying "help the aliens because they want to help you become awesome". However given they're looking for meek subjects to rule I wouldn't entirely trust that. Obviously I'm in favour of transcendence but given that the media is pretty much under control I wouldn't be entirely convinced when I heard rumours it was for our own good.
In practice, I'd still continue my life as normal.

Dude, KwarK, i know you have like 80 apm or something and despite that you're like an A- protoss or something, but honestly, i just read that post high and it didnt make any sense
none at all man.

KwarK

United States42866 Posts

April 25 2010 17:38 GMT

#16

On April 26 2010 02:21 TheAntZ wrote:

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Dude, KwarK, i know you have like 80 apm or something and despite that you're like an A- protoss or something, but honestly, i just read that post high and it didnt make any sense
none at all man.

The whole "hypothesis is that they want to help us achieve singularity" is fairly vague. It could be an alien cover story to keep us placcid.

TheAntZ

Israel6248 Posts

April 25 2010 17:46 GMT

#17

On April 26 2010 02:38 KwarK wrote:

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The whole "hypothesis is that they want to help us achieve singularity" is fairly vague. It could be an alien cover story to keep us placcid.

holy shit keep it coming reading that kinda shit gets me dizzy

Osmoses

Sweden5302 Posts

April 25 2010 18:37 GMT

#18

I'd get in my hazard suit and bust some caps.

condoriano

United States826 Posts

April 25 2010 19:26 GMT

#19

8 minutes before 2007

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Hypnosis

United States2061 Posts

April 25 2010 19:32 GMT

#20

^ lol look at all those fags on SC during new years.

If aliens took over i would call all of my closest republican friends and get guns and create a militia

Spazer

Canada8031 Posts

April 25 2010 19:51 GMT

#21

So the aliens have abducted someone, can turn you into one of them, and control the government while offering us advanced technology?

I think our response is clear.

Mastermind

Canada7096 Posts

April 25 2010 20:19 GMT

#22

How do you become an ex-human?

EsX_Raptor

United States2801 Posts

April 25 2010 20:26 GMT

#23

I startle after hearing those words, words speaking doom to our existence, to what we have come to value as human life. My mind processes the thoughts of an incoming invasion towards earth, and I can't help it but feel defeated, as if something of unmeasurable magnitude were to be on a collision course towards what I learned to call my home.

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Being one of the few guys that had made any extensive and valuable work in the field of robotics and their intelligence, I had faced many arguments and debates pertaining the existence of an artificial creature walking amongst us, sharing our own same and self-obtained human rights. I faced exile after proving my theories to be based on a strong foundation for the design of these creatures even after performing extensive research and proving many theories on how the human mind operates and could be simulated using our long devoted digital models; they didn't want to give up their specialness and replace it with the thought that deep within, we're machines.

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It had begun. Living off of rodent critters and underground water I set up a somewhat stable robot factory, basing the design of the new androids on the old, dusty models the government archived on my findings. Countless hours of uninterrupted work led me to the creation of a basic humanoid that would help me turn this one-man job into a two-ma-... or maybe we're not at that level yet... what I give a fuck about is that in any case, I'd be receiving assistance in the development of this earth-saving revolution of creatures, once deemed unspeakable, absurd, to human ears; creator and creation working together to fight off an impending doom.

To be continued?

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sorry for the touchpad drawings

Newbistic

China2912 Posts

April 25 2010 21:30 GMT

#24

Singularity is still not an end, but a means to an end. What will the aliens do with us once we have achieved singularity?

3FFA

United States3931 Posts

April 25 2010 22:09 GMT

#25

I would just continue my life in SCII and if I didn't have SCII when it happened I would go ahead and challenge the aliens to a game of SC:BW and play them Pv(wtf race they choose) or ask Day[9]/koreans/Idra/orb/painuser/thelittleone/white_ra/some other person besides myself to do it instead with the reasoning that I would most likely fail. If they didn't accept the challenge I would decide that if they could just turn the real world into SCII I would side with them and do pretty much anything they want.