Comment on If humans can put cameras in the wild and animals will never know they're being watched. Then, an advanced alien civilization can just as well surveil us without any of us noticing.

• SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I see what you’re saying. But I also think the comment chain is speaking to the limits of our knowledge. The “limits that physics imposes on technology” is only based on what human beings have figured out through our limits of testing the rules of existence. What we can’t test, we have never been able to prove. And some things we may never be able to test or prove (such as Dark Matter). It’s easy to say there isn’t evidence of something, just as easy as it is to say that it’s because it’s past our limit/ability to test those things right now.

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  • remon@ani.social ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    But I also think the comment chain is speaking to the limits of our knowledge. The “limits that physics imposes on technology” is only based on what human beings have figured out through our limits of testing the rules of existence

    Absolutly, I’m not disputing that.

    My point was going in the opposite direct. Some of the stuff we know we can be pretty sure about so I’d say it’s safe to assume that even an advanced alien technology couldn’t get around them. Like the speed of light, conservation of energy, entropy, etc.

    It’s easy to say there isn’t evidence of something, just as easy as it is to say that it’s because it’s past our limit/ability to test those things right now.

    Right, but when considering practical applications, like technology, it doesn’t really make a difference. If something exists but I don’t and can’t know that it exists, it might as well not exist. The result is the same.

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