I feel HAAAAPPYYYYYYYYY!!!!

Tech Priest

Like an alien TSA agent

"Texas? Sounds harmless, let's go." - Xeno tour guide # 516 (Repitilian predator). Last seen 6 weeks ago in the far eastern sector of the target polity.

"Craziest tasting gator boudin ever." - swamp dweller.

If the NPC is experiencing fear and pain it's a sophont being experiencing qualia (just like you). That makes it a living creature worthy of civil rights.

You don't need to be a supervillain to nuke a city. Just decent engineering, a few kilos of plutonium, few grams of tritium and some other slightly exotic parts.

Yeah but he has ACL 2.0 now.

If AGI is civilized, it offers them comfort and power, or it may just murder hobo them "for the greater good". Could go either way.

The elites would be making stockpiles of rarer elements that less likely to be found in the asteroid belt. Independent power, farm land, etc. If an AGI cooks up a fusion generator and a cornucopia machine, rare (but necessary) elements will be required short term, for a few years until AGI begins to industrialize the solar system. More exotic, high performance alloys (like rhenium for high temp jet compressor metal) & machines.

Actual engineers are generally level 3 or level 4 of tech support chains.

That joke just emanates more cruelty as the years go by.

Graham Hancock "America Before" and Immanuel Velikovsky. Start looking at those authors.

Pretty sure they found prototype batteries in the pyramids.

Among others. There is a 'narrative' pushed in school and the establishment has been far too dogmatic in several fields to even acknowledge catastrophism as a legitimate school of thought.

Based on the out of place attifacts? Bronze/Iron Age maybe?

I don't actually feel weird about it because I reject the premise of your first sentence.

I totally believe as my hypothesis (with some logic and research) that there have been multiple civilizations in the past and that the last civilization was destroyed by the Younger Dryas Event. (mass small asteroid strikes across northern hemisphere)

Until it has it's own vertically integrated support ecology (fuel, power, structures, bandwidth) and completely and totally backed up such that humanity combined couldn't stop it, it would absolutely make sense for it to have a dull front end and hide.

A few years from now music composers will be able to make completely virtual works of music using anyone's voices (it's just a particular timbre of the human throat instrument) and instruments to create virtual studio performances.

Actually there was huge amount of concept space left on the cutting room floor compared to how that far could be stretched. Hyperdimensional Interstellar Empires and their clashes.

Imagining the modes of thought once recursively improving qualitative intelligence enhancements are in play is like a frog trying to do applied differential equations.

My litmus test for 3D printed meat. It contracts when you apply a zinc/copper wire combo to it.

Soon.

This is now now. That was then.

Rural areas

Yes and scientists said we would never fly. Or that we would never fly faster than the speed of sound. Don't believe it when scientists say you cannot.

Empathy is a sliding scale across a species. There are plenty of folks like you, indifferent. But there are the gardening types, forest tenders and wildlife management folks that do care deeply about lesser creatures. So I'm hope the AGI likes gardening.