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[underimagines]

It's been a hot minute since I was last on tumblr, and I kinda expected this blog to have been abandoned, for y'all to move on to something else. But seeing that y'all are keeping this up was surprising, to say the least, and it made me feel really happy! Thank you for keeping this going, and I gotta say, the quality of the writing remains fantastic!

Hey, thanks a bunch! Creating content for this blog has been really fun and meaningful for me on a personal level, and I hope to keep doing the same for the foreseeable future!

[operation-earthanoids]

What if the first aliens we meet were AI themselves and saw we had created almost exact copies of them (or at least something eerily similar to them)? How would they react if we told them that we'd never seen them before and the fact that our AI looked like them was just a coincidence?

That would likely be quite startling to them. I know I’d probably be very upset if someone I’d never met somehow managed to create a being that looked just like me. I’m assuming the AI are at least somewhat sapient, because seeing a copy of yourself that just functions as a computer for someone else would be a level of creepy I can’t even begin to fathom.