Nov 15 2021
Aliens Would Visit for Knowledge, Not Resources 外星人来这里是为了知识，而不是资源
The only thing they will lack is the knowledge they don’t have 他们唯一会缺乏的是他们没有的知识
布雷特：我想斯蒂芬·霍金说过，向宇宙发送广播无线电波是一个错误，因为外星人将在那里，他们将像征服者一样。他们想要接管我们的星球，以获取资源和其他东西。
Brett:I think Stephen Hawking said that it was a mistake to broadcast radio waves out into the universe because the aliens are going to be out there and they’re going to be like conquistadors. They’re going to want to take over our planet for their resources and various other things.
对于邪恶的外星人来抓我们的想法，你可以有几种反应。
There’s a couple of responses you can have to the idea of evil aliens coming to get us.
首先，要在无限的未来取得进展，并拥有能够穿越银河系的技术，唯一的途径就是拥有波普尔所拥有的这种知识愿景——也就是说，你可以自由地探索创意的空间，能够进行证伪假设，并且没有中央集权且没有武装行动， 这些都会扼杀创造力。
The first is that the only way to make progress into the infinite future and to have the technologies that would enable you to traverse the galaxy, is to have this vision of knowledge that Popper had—namely, that you are freely able to explore the space of ideas, able to falsify assumptions, and don’t have centralized authorities and force being used on people, which dampens down creativity.
要拥有一个最大创造性的社会，你必须行动和思想都自由，那样你将拥有一个非暴力的社会。你将拥有一个将创造力本身视为目的的社会。
To have a maximally creative society, you have to have freedom, you have to have liberty, and therefore you will have a non-violent society. You’ll have a society that values creativity as an end in itself.
当我们遇到外星人时，我们不应该期望他们是不道德的混蛋，想要夺走我们的资源，而是相反：他们会看着我们，认为我们是原始的野蛮人。他们会认为我们是道德侏儒，他们会想教我们，他们不会想把我们关进监狱或做类似的事情。
When we encounter the aliens, we shouldn’t expect that they’re going to be immoral bastards that are going to want to take over our resources, but the opposite: They’re going to look at us and think what primitive savages that we are. They’re going to think that we’re moral midgets, and they’re going to want to teach us. They’re not going to want to put us in prison or anything like that.
知识是一个统一的整体。如果外星人的物理学比我们好得多——使他们能够接近光速，或者使用一些奇怪的广义相对论引力来制造虫洞，这样他们就可以用比光速更快的速度穿越太空——他们所有的科学家都会领先得更多。他们所有的知识都将走得更前沿：他们的数学、道德、政治制度。
Knowledge is a unified whole. If their physics are so much better than ours—which enables them to approach the speed of light or to use some weird general relativity gravity thing that creates a wormhole, so they can get through space faster than the speed of light—all of their scientists are going to be so much farther ahead. All of their knowledge is going to be farther ahead: their mathematics, their morality, their political institutions.
所以我们不必担心外星人。So we don’t have to worry about the aliens.
而且，顺便说一句，我们不必担心他们抢夺我们的资源。他们不会说，“有一个拥有煤炭和水的星球，我们去占领它吧。
And, by the way, we don’t have to worry about them stealing our resources. It’s not like they’re going to go, “Ah, there’s a planet full of coal and water. We’re going to take it.”
不，他们将拥有能够在星际空间中去除氢气并将其变成聚变反应堆的知识，并使用 3D 打印来创造他们想要的任何技术。
No, they’re going to have the knowledge to be able to sweep up the hydrogen in intergalactic space and turn that into a fusion reactor and use 3D printing to create any technology that they want.
事实上，这可能是费米悖论的另一个答案。他们不需要离开当地，因为他们已经拥有了完美维持他们生活的技术。
In fact, that might be another answer to the Fermi paradox. They don’t need to leave their local area because they’ve already got the technology to perfectly sustain them.
纳瓦尔： 他们有戴森球，他们可以收集他们需要的所有能量，他们可以收集所有的东西，他们可以创造任何他们想要的东西，他们可以在 VR 空间中拥有他们想要的任何现实。
Naval: They’ve got Dyson spheres and they can gather all the energy they need. They can gather all the matter, they can create anything they want, and they can have any reality in VR space that they want.
他们唯一缺乏的是他们没有的新知识（认知）。
The only thing that they would be lacking is new knowledge that they don’t have.
马丽：外星文明如果客观存在，而目前地球上又找不到外星人的踪迹，只能说明外星球本身已经本自具足、丰盛自然。外星生物拥有足够前沿的智慧和知识，他们不需要到其他星球或地球来获取新的资源，他们自己就可以创造。如果哪一天，在地球找到外星人的踪迹，只能说明，地球这个星球上，有外星人都没有认知到的新知识，新知识驱动他们要来地球转一转，学习一下。
