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Show HN: Alienslike.us – Vote on what an alien society might be like

52 点作者 xxxxxxxx超过 8 年前

20 条评论

computator超过 8 年前
It asked me if intelligent alien life would know about pi. I answered &quot;yes&quot;, and the survey told me that 84% had also answered &quot;yes&quot;. Am I understanding that right -- that 16% of respondents think that pi could be avoided?<p>OK, I get that this is a wildly crazily speculative discussion but how does anyone imagine <i>intelligent</i> life that doesn&#x27;t have a concept of pi in some form? Pi is everywhere in math and science.
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Smaug123超过 8 年前
My answers are strongly dependent on rather loose interpretations of words like &quot;sleep&quot;, &quot;money&quot;, &quot;private&quot; &quot;property&quot;, &quot;taxation&quot; and so on. I think it&#x27;s probably better to start with more general questions: for example, the answer &quot;no&quot; to &quot;do they defect with each other on Prisoners&#x27; Dilemmas&quot; basically rules out the need for taxation.
funkyy超过 8 年前
&quot;Is there United Nations&quot; - this question is extremely vague. It should be clarified. Overall most questions are based on our civilization and our path, rather than more important aspects.<p>-&quot;Are they aggressive&quot;<p>-&quot;Do they have empathy&quot;<p>-&quot;Do they have family model&quot;<p>Same with &quot;Are there Jails&quot; should be substituted by &quot;Are there crimes&quot; and &quot;Is there a justice system&quot;
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ff_超过 8 年前
It was fun, thanks!<p>Just this morning I finished reading Solaris (by Stanisław Lem, it&#x27;s an amazing book about reflecting on &quot;how an alien could look like&quot;, 10&#x2F;10), so I stopped thinking after every question to consider different scenarios possible with either answers.<p>To me it feels like a great tool to start laying down the plot for your next scifi book ;)
federicoponzi超过 8 年前
This is a funny quiz to do. Even if IMO yes or no are too restrictive. Also, the backgrounds are very heavy, I used to select answer, start loading page and press esc to stop loading of the background :D
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JD557超过 8 年前
Fun exercise, but some of the questions could use more context.<p>For example: &quot;Do they value gold?&quot; - I guess that depends on the amount of gold that you can find on their planet.<p>I guess it would lose some of its charm if the questions were larger, though.
xxxxxxxx超过 8 年前
I made this in Go &amp; postgreSQL as a learning exercise. There are 60 questions and I haven&#x27;t developed the &#x27;end&#x27; yet, it just goes back to the start. So if you see the questions repeating, it&#x27;s time to stop. If you hover over the percentage graph it will give you the stats so far for that question.
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sbussard超过 8 年前
It&#x27;s a never ending quiz that asks you the same questions more than once. There needs to be an end!
fapjacks超过 8 年前
I think the only thing that I said &quot;no&quot; to was ten fingers, since there&#x27;s something around a 25% chance they have five fingers on each hand -- versus three, four, five, or six or so -- and assumes they only have two arms which serve as their primary environment manipulators. Even with eyes, it&#x27;s a safe assumption their form of life evolved near a radiation source of some kind, and they almost certainly have &quot;eyes&quot; with which to sense that source. Even more so, that these things all exist in our history, by extension they must be possible in alien history. They may be immortal atheist pure communists that do not need to eat <i>at the moment</i>, but you&#x27;ll need to consider how they got there, and so &quot;yes&quot; they probably did at one point have thieves and taxes and poverty and a king, even if they don&#x27;t now. And &quot;having&quot; something (in my answers) includes having had something.
ovaqre超过 8 年前
&quot;On this planet there is intellegent life.&quot;<p>C&#x27;mon, of any words to misspell...
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pmontra超过 8 年前
I started with Do they have jails and after a long while it asked me again the same question. Next was Do the have shops, which I already answered. Maybe it should understand it asked all the questions, thank and quit.<p>Are you going to post a one page total of all questions?<p>Btw, did you spend more time coding or looking for suitable pictures for the questions? :-)
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tomelders超过 8 年前
Needs a &#x27;maybe&#x27; button.
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mrfusion超过 8 年前
I&#x27;ve heard that bridges on an alien planet would look eerily like ours since there would probably be a need for them and all designs would converge on the most optimal.
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petters超过 8 年前
I answered no to essentially all questions. I consider dogs and rabbits, for example, to be intelligent life. From observing the earth and our surroundings, there is no reason to assume that higher intelligence would automatically arise.<p>How to define human-level intelligence is an interesting question. It would probably have to be done with questions similar to those on the site. E.g., do they know about pi.<p>P.S. 25% think they have access to time travel?!
user5994461超过 8 年前
&quot;500 Internal Server Error&quot;<p>Is the site being DoS&#x27;d by us?
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asderty123超过 8 年前
I am amazed by how many people are willing to believe this but don&#x27;t find out for themselves what the name of Jesus is doing
logingone超过 8 年前
Just cycling for me - get to the last question and it continues to the first question :( I was looking forward to the results.
coldcode超过 8 年前
What a waste of time, its just a bunch of questions useful to advertisers.
tbarbugli超过 8 年前
what&#x27;s the purpose of this exactly? I kept clicking a the gauge chart changed all the time but showed no insight on what was going on
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thght超过 8 年前
epic!
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