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nimysa
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States383 Posts
April 25 2010 14:24 GMT
#1
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?

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green.at
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
Austria1459 Posts
April 25 2010 14:41 GMT
#2
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
Inputting special characters into chat should no longer cause the game to crash.
micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24743 Posts
April 25 2010 14:44 GMT
#3
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.
ModeratorThere are animal crackers for people and there are people crackers for animals.
BuGzlToOnl
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
United States5918 Posts
April 25 2010 14:45 GMT
#4
If you want to make God laugh, tell Him your plans.
Gandalf
Profile Joined August 2004
Pakistan1905 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-04-25 15:13:38
April 25 2010 15:13 GMT
#5
I'd definitely support the aliens. Especially if they were Vulcan.
seppolevne
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Canada1681 Posts
April 25 2010 15:17 GMT
#6
Reaching technological singularity would be awesome, and humans are pretty lame. Go aliens!
J- Pirate Udyr WW T- Pirate Riven Galio M- Galio Annie S- Sona Lux -- Always farm, never carry.
seRapH
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States9776 Posts
April 25 2010 15:21 GMT
#7
i'd probably be too busy playing starcraft to care.
boomer hands
ShroomyD
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Australia245 Posts
April 25 2010 15:33 GMT
#8
I'd be sworn to kill every last one! every last one!!!
아나코자본주의
Demoninja
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
United States1190 Posts
April 25 2010 15:43 GMT
#9
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
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States383 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-04-25 15:55:06
April 25 2010 15:44 GMT
#10
To Micronesia:

Basically transcendence for something but it's not clear why or for what
KwarK
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States43291 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.
ModeratorThe angels have the phone box
Megalisk
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
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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Tear stained american saints and dirty guitar dreams across a universe of desert and blue sky , gas station coffee love letters and two dollar pistol kisses from thirty five dollar hotel room stationary .
RedTerror
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
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
Profile Joined December 2008
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
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
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.
43084 | Honeybadger: "So july, you're in the GSL finals. How do you feel?!" ~ July: "HUNGRY."
KwarK
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States43291 Posts
April 25 2010 17:38 GMT
#16
On April 26 2010 02:21 TheAntZ wrote:
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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.

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.
ModeratorThe angels have the phone box
TheAntZ
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Israel6248 Posts
April 25 2010 17:46 GMT
#17
On April 26 2010 02:38 KwarK wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 26 2010 02:21 TheAntZ wrote:
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.

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
43084 | Honeybadger: "So july, you're in the GSL finals. How do you feel?!" ~ July: "HUNGRY."
Osmoses
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
Sweden5302 Posts
April 25 2010 18:37 GMT
#18
I'd get in my hazard suit and bust some caps.
Excuse me hun, but what is your name? Vivian? I woke up next to you naked and, uh, did we, um?
condoriano
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States826 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-04-25 19:28:04
April 25 2010 19:26 GMT
#19
8 minutes before 2007

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Ridentem dicere verum quid vetat?
Hypnosis
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
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
Science without religion is lame, Religion without science is blind
Spazer
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
Canada8032 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-04-25 19:52:20
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.
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Mastermind
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Canada7096 Posts
April 25 2010 20:19 GMT
#22
How do you become an ex-human?
EsX_Raptor
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States2802 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-04-25 20:28:20
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
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
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?
Logic is Overrated
3FFA
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
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.
"As long as it comes from a pure place and from a honest place, you know, you can write whatever you want."
Faronel
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States658 Posts
April 25 2010 22:53 GMT
#26
I'd play SC:BW... no chance necessary... I'd probably play new UMS maps that involves the new aliens.
C'est la vie...
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