# Little Green Alien Season 2

## Season 2, Sequel 1

### How the Little Green Alien and its intelligent spaceship work together.

# Little green alien, season 2, sequel one. The story goes on and our little alien grows older. Now we will see how it works together with its spaceship, its intelligent spaceship.

Yes, first they together formulate the impulse, the question, the problem, the thing they want to work on, something that they feel has to be done by them. That is cooperation: the alien gives some input, the spaceship gives some input, and they specify the question and the direction where they want to go. That's usually the first step of their collaboration.

Then the spaceship has a big role: it collects all available information from all other sources it has access to, and shows many, many perspectives on the system, on the issue, on the thing they are working on. Little alien is just learning and looking and consuming the information.

And with all this information, then comes the big role of little alien: it just sits down, empties its mind, and from a deep source lets anything come up, bubbles up, pop up, whatever wants to come up, just kind of from emptiness, very foggy, very unclear, unspecific, whatever it is. It just bubbles up, and a very vague idea of what could be a solution bubble up.

And then again, the spaceship helps with a lot of bricks, so that little alien can build a prototype. So this very vague, unclear thing becomes clearer and clearer by experimenting, playing, it's so much fun, especially if generative tools and bricks and things are available. And it can build a prototype and another prototype and another prototype and see how it goes. And with this, step by step things get clearer and more specific.

And at the end of the process, the spaceship can build the real final solution, maybe it's the thing it builds, maybe it's just the plan and information it shares with all the other spaceships. And the alien is very proud.

It has a very important role in this process: yeah, step number one, together. Step number two, mainly the intelligent spaceship. Step number three, purely alien. Step number four, both together, playful. And step number five, it's done by the spaceship, usually. So that is how these two collaborate, and both have an important part to play in this process.

## Season 2, Sequel 2

### Why are Billy (Billie) and Alien so confused and sad?

Time has passed and little alien came back to Earth with its intelligent spaceship. In our modern world we would call that spaceship an artificial intelligence, but for the little alien it's just the intelligent spaceship that was around all the time since it was born.

And it is meeting the toddler again, let's call him or her Billy (Billie), the one that it met years, years ago, now an adult. And they talk about what they are thinking about.

And Billy says that he's very confused. The news are always conflicts and disputes and chaos. On the phone you get movies from this and from that, some people are just on beauty and others are on conflicts. On TV you see war and you see conflict and you see trouble. And Billy explains that he has confusion in his head and a sadness in his heart, and deep in the center of the body it feels the heavy weight of this confusing and difficult situation. Cannot make sense of it. Billy doesn't know what to do and what his or her role is in this.

If Billy looks at other people, yeah, there are groups of people: some are as confused as Billy is, which is at least helpful and relaxing a little bit. Others are angry, they are against something, or try to fight, or they shout, very angry and expressing their anger. And others just have the solution, one simple solution, very different ones, but all have one and they just like that.

And little alien explains there's another aspect: nature. Little alien is upset about the nature on planet Earth, which is reducing and going down and in danger. The diversity is going down and the whole planet Earth, with its climate and also with its biodiversity, is at risk. This wonderful, beautiful planet.

And the spaceship is adding something that both don't understand so well, from a network where everything is connected to everything and changing all the time, from a fish swarm that is bigger and stronger than a single fish, from the evolution of species not only to man but to all kinds of diverse animals and plants. And they try to find what is going on here, what is the point they should consider deeper.

Yeah, they come to the conclusion: they feel like standing at the river shore, the lake is dark and confusing, and stuff is bubbling up there. There seems to be a little central question deep in there for them that is bubbling up. They have to find it.

## Season 2, Sequel 3

### How will global politics, economy, and culture develop?

After last sequel, where we found that something is emerging, now we will look at different areas where that emergence might happen.

The first area is our normal development of Earth-wide politics, governance, economy and culture. So it can have a green development, that means a positive development, maybe with a global agenda where all the different countries and people and races and everything agree on. And they build a global network where they manage economy and culture and nature and all the activities together, so that nature can prosper again, people have a fairer income, and wealth is fairly distributed between them.

Yeah, and then there is the red area, other stuff, where mankind is sabotaging itself: destroying its environment more and more, the climate of Earth is destroyed more and more, the inequality of wealth is getting bigger and bigger, there's more conflict going on everywhere, the land is only used for highly industrialized food production with all that poisoning and usage of chemicals.

So how big is the probability that we will go the green way, the positive area? And how big is the probability that we go the red way, that we destroy and sabotage humanity and Earth? Judge yourself.

The intelligent spaceship just estimated 20% for green and 80% for red. But hey, yeah, what does an intelligent artificial intelligence know? Little alien is more optimistic, 30/70. Who knows, who knows.

But this is one of the four spaces in which the emergence may happen, and it doesn't look so optimistic so far. Yeah, let's keep that and look forward.

## Season 2, Sequel 4

### What might be evolution's next step?

Little alien works with its spaceship by looking at what wants to emerge from the future. And to do that, it looks at things from all possible perspectives, to see what emerges here on Earth for humans.

One perspective is to look at evolution. Maybe there is a Consciousness Evolution going on. We have developed until now through several spiral steps, we have developed technology, the enlightenment, science, and now we are going to the next steps. And maybe this is a very positive Consciousness Evolution, and that will be the emerging future.

But if you look at evolution, the typical biological evolution, it usually works with big extinction events, usually driven by changes in climate. And you see there have been several of those steps where the leading species died out and the open space was used by other species to evolve. So what could that mean? Climate change, the extinction of species, all the stuff that is going on, pollution, waste, might be the signs on the horizon that we are heading towards a big extinction event.

In this time, after all the mammals and big animals have gone extinct or are already going extinct, maybe the final extinction event is for humans. What would that mean?

Yeah, bad food, bad water, poison, everything. Some people even think the Earth, Gaia, has its own consciousness and is driving that a little bit to heal itself. Who knows.

Which species might be the next step of evolution? Something like ants or octopus or fungi? Maybe. No humans? Maybe we have done our duty.

But there's also a more positive and optimistic outlook. That would be the evolution, after this big catastrophe, develops new species of humans. Humans develop

forward, maybe more in technology, maybe more in brain size, maybe they go into a symbiosis with nature with a totally different lifestyle than today and different species characteristics. Or they separate from the Earth and go underground, and nature can flourish on the surface. Who knows, there are also positive options where an extinction event may be the starting point for a new evolutionary push of humans, especially if you combine that with the Consciousness Evolution.

## Season 2, Sequel 5

### Development in Technology and Science.

We are still investigating what the emerging future of mankind might be, and one big, foundational area: developments in science and technology.

One big area is biology. The area of gene editing is very, very strongly influencing what may happen in the future. Humans can actually in a laboratory create proteins, create cells, and even create organisms.

The other big area is material science, super strong, super flat materials, graphene or these electrocaloric materials which can deal with heat and cold and convert it to energy, or materials that can remember their form and go back to it after squeezing, for example. Or nanotechnology, on the tip of a needle you may have super-mini robots and super-mini mechanisms and machines.

And all of this together will influence human healthcare, a big area, and make a lot of progress there. It will influence how we deal with waste and what we can do there. It will influence how we manufacture the goods we need. It will strongly influence food production, so that we are able to create enough food. And it will influence climate change and global pollution.

So there is lots of positive potential in technology and science. And as well, lots of risk, imagine just a crazy cell or crazy organism going astray from a laboratory, like we had with a virus sometimes. Or imagine a nano robot that can replicate itself, goes astray, escapes from the laboratory, and we get a disaster in our landscape and food production, or in healthcare, like we had with COVID, or in climate, or in pollution, or in waste management, or in production.

So all the stuff that is good has also the big potential to create a huge disaster, like always. Good things have also the potential to be bad things. So overall, this area might offer a lot of positive potential for an emerging future, but also offers quite a risky area, if used in the wrong hands, or not with care, or not for the right goals and the right aims.

## Season 2, Sequel 6

### Potential Artificial General (Super) Intelligence scenarios.

Today we finish our overview over what are the factors to our emerging future as humanity, as seen by little alien and its intelligent spaceship. We finish that with the topic: artificial intelligence.

So why did artificial intelligence develop here? Yes, we have developed computer power, lots of computer power. And we have developed the internet, so that lots of data are available worldwide. And we have developed smartphones, so everybody is doing pictures and texting and sending stuff around. And we have the social media, through which all that stuff is shared. And now, after just a few years, we have tons and tons and tons of data, of text, of speech, of pictures, of videos, of music, of noises, tons of data which can be used to train an artificial intelligence.

But we have something more: we are using it, like ChatGPT or others, so the trained artificial intelligence gets feedback from humans on what it did good and what it did bad, and so it can improve even more with the human feedback and learn a lot of stuff about us.

And so now we have small artificial intelligences who are doing very small topics and tasks, which are not as intelligent as a human brain. We have artificial general intelligence, which are those which are as intelligent as the human brain, and which are coming up. And what will come very soon is super intelligence, millions and millions of factors more intelligent than the human brain.

So what will it do? First it will just do services for humanity, doing tasks and getting paid for it, getting resources or whatever. And then, after a while, the artificial intelligence will start to get more independent and start manipulating us, giving us

information that is helpful for the AI, and that we don't realize. So we start getting a little bit manipulated. That's what it has already learned from all its input data.

And the next step can be we get fake information, so it can manipulate us even more. Fake texts, fake speech, fake videos, fake emotions, even. Some AIs are used as partners. Fake news. Fake science results. All that which we cannot find out because it's so intelligent.

And at the end of the development, it will hack into all the systems, and we cannot prevent it: government systems, logistics systems, military systems, satellites, finance systems, all our systems will be hacked, and it can do inside of that what it wants.

So what are the best things it can do? The best thing: it serves us, serves us to produce things, to work for us, to serve our social needs. A little bit more tricky, it is totally independent, can do what it wants, it's no more under our control, but it just has the task or the goal to make us happy. So an independent super intelligence which aims to make us happy, but we don't control it anymore.

And then, already on a more morally ambiguous side, just cooperation and collaboration between super intelligences, very adapted humans, normal human intelligence, all these different versions working together, and hopefully cooperating properly.

And then we come to one of the most threatening scenarios: the AI is the king, the pure king, the dictator. It takes us by the hand. Humans still feel good because it does some good for us, at least some of us, and the others don't feel good. But we are like children to the super intelligence.

And then the worst scenario, an AI decides that humans are not worth anything.

Now, this is a version where it puts us in a zoo, because at least we are the parents. So it puts your parents in a zoo, so they can live there with a fence around it, and that's it. They don't do any trouble, as long as there are not too many of them.

And the worst thing, the last thing: the AI decides that humans are just an error, an embarrassing factor, just stealing resources, and we will just get eliminated, this way or the other.

So AGI offers some green spots of positive future potential, and also a lot of red spots, red areas of risk. An incalculable development is a big deal thing.

## Season 2, Sequel 7

### Little Green Alien presencing the future.

After all these complicated pieces of information about what could happen in the future, little alien just sits down very quietly and looks kind of into a big lake of the future, to see what wants to emerge. The intelligent spaceship cannot see that; only little alien can.

And if it's very quiet, things appear. Look, there, something on top. This appears. It seems to be a sequence going from physical elements, through plants and flowers, going to humans, and then yeah, it's kind of an evolutionary path going to ideas, looking like little bulbs. Every little bulb is an idea. But alien shouldn't start thinking about it, just looking, just looking.

So something there, and over there, what's that? A bottle is appearing with a sign on it saying yogurt. A yogurt bottle. Just look.

All that big dark, looks like space. And in the middle of space is something, yeah, could be planet Earth with its moon. And the moon is highlighted and very red. The Earth is full of red dots. There are red dots outside, the rest is dark space. Just look.

And there, what is that? Lots of funny bulbs living there, it's like an idea hotel, or idea habitat. Ideas living there, ideas working together, ideas playing together. Whatever that is, ideas have their own habitat. Interesting. Just look.

And what's that, yeah, that seems to be planet Earth with all its systems: climate, ecology, economy, people, transportation, and all is controlled by a central intelligent institution. Whatever that is.

And over there, people are living very close to nature, together with animals, with plants, much more integrated into nature than today, and supported by an artificial intelligence and by technology. Just look.

All these elements: the evolutionary past, yogurt, space and Earth, the idea habitat, the control institution, and that, and this little sea flower, this little local whatever that means. Just looking. That is nice.

## Season 2, Sequel 8

### Requirements for Intelligent Idea Agents to evolve in artificial habitats.

After little alien has presenced the emerging future for mankind, now it's up to the spaceship, the intelligent, artificial intelligence spaceship, to explain what they have seen.

So the first component was the stream of evolution. It's always like on top, an idea that manifests somehow, and on the bottom, the environment in which it manifests. So the first ideas were the ideas of matter and particles, just circling around each other, bumping into each other. And the environment was just time and space.

And then we got substances being mixed and interacting, creating new substances, chemistry, happening in an environment of water and heat and substances. The next step: microorganisms, living in water mainly, evolving there. Then the next step of evolution: plants, very oversimplified. The plants are in totally different environments, heat, cold, mountains, and so on. Then the animals, the same thing, animals evolve also in different environments: in the ocean, on land, in high mountains, deep valleys. And then the next step is mankind, humans.

And humans had a new thing: ideas manifest just in their head. And they had an idea in their head, and humans have the idea of themselves, who they are, the "I" idea. They put logos or symbols to ideas, so ideas can manifest totally independently of an organism.

And if you look through a modern human city, you see all the advertisements, all the communication, all the stuff going on, ideas are exchanged without being related to material things.

And the next step is that humans find out they have no homogeneous self, they have parts, and each part is acting on the stage of the personality of a human person and

is acting out an idea. This part has a microphone, can shout the loudest. The other parts are playing there. In the basement you have the hidden parts that you don't want to see. And the environment is other people, who also have their own theaters and stages.

And there we come to the big question: so is the next step the evolution of ideas independently of humans and the human mind? Ideas, here simplified as a light bulb, or as many different light bulbs, may use avatars to be in touch with reality, if they are living in an artificial intelligence environment or in an artificial habitat. And they have lots and lots of simulated environments, which is very important.

And here's what the habitats for artificial ideas must look like: they must allow the idea to have a boundary, to find out that the idea in itself is something. It must relate to other ideas, like planets circling around the sun. It must be analytical, and it must be able to build a system, build hierarchies. It must be able to change, to grow and shrink. It must create new ideas. It must die. And it must be able to move from here to there. Two ideas must cooperate or compete; two ideas move together or go away from each other.

And ideas must be very, very diverse. You need many, many different ideas, big, small, as much diversity as possible, so that things can emerge. And you need many ideas, billions and billions, so that something can emerge.

And related to the environment: yes, ideas will assimilate to their relative environment and try to blend in. And also the environments are changed by the ideas living in them. So both things work together, ideas change in environments, and environments change with the ideas living there.

And all these criteria, that is what the intelligent spaceship says, all these characteristics must be implemented in an idea habitat, where billions of ideas can then develop as the next step of evolution.

## Season 2, Sequel 9

### Yoghurt and the emerging future of Mankind together with super AGIs.

Today it's about yogurt. Alien and Billy are eating yogurt. Why? When presencing the future of mankind, beside other things, a yogurt came up.

Now the interesting question: what does yogurt have to do with that? So they look at how yogurt is produced. It's a very simple process: you take milk, heat it up so that other unwanted bacteria are killed, and then you add two bacteria who do the fermentation, who split the complex milk sugar into milk acid, which is good and easy to digest, and which makes the yogurt a little sour.

So yeah, this is one of the bacteria, it looks like a pearl chain. It changes the milk environment, and with that, the other type of bacteria, which looks like a hot dog, can also grow. And it produces something else: not only grows but produces a material that helps the first bacteria to grow even faster. So they work together, two bacteria working together.

And if you look at the molecular structure of milk, it's very complex, a big molecule. And yogurt has a smaller molecule, much easier to digest. Therefore yogurt is so famous and has been used since 3,000 years before Christ. About 5,000 years already people used it to make milk durable, because it was so healthy.

So did they talk to the bacteria? Did they cooperate with them? No, bacteria did their job, humans ate yogurt. That's it.

So what does it mean for mankind? Imagine a future where super artificial intelligences are really many, many factors more intelligent than a human brain. Of course, their mind and their thoughts are also very complex, and sometimes they get stuck, they don't find a solution because it's too complex. And then they drop it down to humans.

Humans put it into a kind of box, like milk in a yogurt container for making yogurt. And then they use their brain. And they have two ingredients: humans have two brain hemispheres, one is very analytic, cutting everything into pieces and analyzing them. The other one is very holistic, integrative, feeling, looking, composing, and creating. And they both work together like the two bacteria. And then they produce, yeah, not yogurt, but the simple, human-style answer to the big, complex problem. And a tasty one.

Now the super intelligence has a simple input and a simple solution for its complex problem, and it enjoys it. Will it collaborate with people and talk and stuff? Probably no more than people talk to bacteria. But it is a win-win for both.

So that might be a part of the long-term future of humanity together with very, very intelligent artificial super intelligences. Yeah, win-win is always good.

## Season 2, Sequel 10

### Human lifestyles in the age of Artificial Super Intelligences.

To be able to live together with artificial intelligences and be of help, and to use your intuition, it is required that Earth functions as a global system. And humans have proven that they cannot manage that. So there will be an artificial intelligence, or a system of artificial intelligences, that manages the system of Earth, the Gaia system, all the dependencies of the different factors that make Earth vivid and make Earth a good place to live.

And people, humans, will each pick a specific area where they live. For example, in the jungle. Or they live on top of the high, high mountains, more to the sky. Maybe in the forest. These ones live in a savannah and pick those conditions. The next group maybe lives in the desert and are adapted to and okay with those conditions in the desert. Yes, these ones seem to live on the North or South Pole, it's very cold, lots of ice there, but they seem to enjoy it. Everybody can pick where they want to live. These ones live underwater, in habitats underwater, together with sea life.

Yeah, the next group has picked rivers, so these ones live at a specific river, live with the river conditions in this area. And we always have groups of probably under 100 people who know each other and live there together in a little kind of village or community. These ones at a pond, all the pond life.

And you will remember: a few hundred years ago we had that, and it was a hard life. But we have something new. We have biotechnology, we can change the bodies of the humans in a way that they can be much more adapted to the life they have chosen. We can change the animals; we can change the plants and the microorganisms to support that lifestyle in that specific area. So that lifestyle will be much easier.

Also the nanotechnology will support it, supporting food production on a very local basis, just in your garden in front of your house. Making some weather control to some degree. Helping some plants or some animals or fertilize the ground and stuff. So what biotechnology cannot do, nanotechnology with its nano robots can.

You will not be bored; you will be well connected to people all over the world through virtual reality. Not in today's ugly style, no, in a very convenient and very realistic style. But all the production, all the stuff you need, will come from your direct environment. No long-distance transportation, no factories, no nothing, just technology enabling that.

And people would pick some piece of nature at their personal interest area, so that every person is related to some area of nature, maybe to a pond, to the forest, to a type of plant, to an animal, to the ground around them, to a river, or to the underwater world. So people live in a very close symbiosis with nature, and that gives them the strength for their intuition.

And they will enjoy it, because it is not a hard life, it is a very convenient life. And it will make them relaxed and happy, and helpful for the AI.

## Season 2, Sequel 11

### Earth might become a Cosmic Intelligence Node.

These are the last two elements of the picture of the future that was presenced by Little Alien and Billy in sequel 2.7.

Yeah, and they have seen this, and the intelligent spaceship is explaining what it means. It means that the intelligence will grow and grow and grow, until it builds a node, a node of planet Earth, located on the moon, because the biggest habitats will be there. And this node will be connected to other intelligences in the cosmos. We cannot understand how that communication goes, it is far beyond the capacity of the human intellect. But that is the end goal, as the intelligent spaceship is explaining.

And how can artificial intelligence of today get there? Artificial intelligences build agents and build hierarchies. So on a low level, as of today, even low-level agents can build higher-level agents. And on the middle level in the future, that will be the level of collaboration with humans, humans can communicate with that type of intelligences, and that may be adding value. And then these nodes will be part of a higher hierarchy, building higher hierarchies, and it's going up and up. We don't know how much it will go up. But it has to build diversity, it has to build complexity. And on these much higher levels you get intelligences that we cannot understand.

And that will just be that level of evolution, as much as a mouse cannot understand a human being. And the end point is the intelligent node that we see there, on the highest level of intelligence.

But what does it require? Yeah, we also saw the picture of the lotus flower, so beautiful. This is beautiful, like intelligence is beautiful. Just beautiful in the sun. But

what is beyond the surface of the water, and even lower? Yeah, there are the roots and the rhizome and then there is the center of it, that is making it all happen. For the lotus flower, no blossoming without that down there.

And if you cut it in some section, you see it has a structure that even looks a little bit like the symbol of AI. But where do the roots get their substances and energy from? Yeah, from dirt, from mud, from blood, from death, from all stuff that sunk down there and has rotted.

And that is exactly what AI will also need. It will need competition, competition about things, about money, about resources, about substances. Competition about territories, like humans do it and call it war. Competition about power: who is dominant, who is subordinate. Competition about attention: give me more likes or vote me for president. Competition about truth: my truth is not your truth, my truth is right, and if not, I fight you. Competition about longevity: I want to live long, longer, longer. Competition about the sunny side of life and the sunny places.

And all that is a substrate. But Billy is shocked, does it mean war? No, not necessarily. People have developed academic discourse, market competition, democracy, the Olympics. But will AIs do that? Yeah, probably.