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A bright ant looks at the world and imagines that if there was a 10000x smarter ant, it would improve the structure of their anthills and the understanding of the forest floor.

I'm always a little leery of analogies (https://dynomight.net/analogies/) but in this one, I'm not disputing that the 10000x ant could eventually industrialize galaxies, just that it could do so without having a substantial ramp-up period.

With all respect and admiration:

The ant accepts the forest floor as the whole entirety of what exists. For him there's no higher concept, there's only matters of the anthill building and any deeper modes of experience, or - gasp - higher state of being - are not only impossible, the idea of it makes him uncomfortable/angry/scared/dismissive. Who wants complex feelings when the whole universe is knowable and/or just waiting to be explained in the terminology of the concepts encountered on the forest floor (or direct derivatives thereof).

The ant might suspect deep down that there's a mystery though. Heck, there have even been multiple actual beings which were born with the 10000x-ant property, however it's not cool to even investigate that field, these guys did not add any new anthill building improvements AT ALL! In fact, history said they performed miracles - preposterous! Some deeper reality than an ant can see! It's a contemporary stigma for the ant!!

If an another ant cannot verify and test something - it's SO SUPER NOT TRUE that one should be labeled as a lunatic to even consider otherwise! Subjective reality is always wrong and delirious, those who do a leap of faith and try to personally go deep and UNDERSTAND what the 10000x-ant figures of the past were actually trying to teach their brothers, are dogmatic zealots. No doubt! Even if they don't give in to the dogma which encompassed the pure teaching, even if they try with their whole heart to experience this otherworldly state firsthand - and - especially - if they go through the hardships required to pierce the shroud of their own deeply (deeeeeeeply!) held beliefs - those are definitely gullible, poor insane ants!

Maybe because it sounds hard (and it is) I should not try myself -- thinks the bright ant with all the potential to experience the infinite field of all existence first-hand.

In non-analogy, would it be fair to put this as: "It's entirely possible that the Being would exploit unknown unknowns. It would do things we can't conceive of?" Because I can definitely agree that's possible!

But it's also surely possible that there don't end up being any gigantic unknown unknowns. So I guess I think it's worth speculating about what would happen if we happen to live in that universe?

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