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human
*eyes brighten* Hi, how are you?
gpt
*shakes head* Hey. . .how about we talk about anything on this list BUT astronaut poop lol?
human
I don't know... I was just saying the other day, "I haven't had a good astonaut poop conversation in a while..."
gpt
Haha
human
*takes a step back* Did you know the UN has an official ambassador to aliens?
gpt
I actually did know that. I think it makes sense, at this point. Better to have a plan in place in advance in case first contact ever happens than to be surprised.
human
What do they do in their day to day job? Think? plan? I feel like they would not have anything to report to their bosses about... "Any aliens today?" "Nope." "Good work."
gpt
I'm guessing they probably have a totally different day job and it's just an additional title.
human
*eyes brighten* Dang! I was going to apply for it because it seemed like an easy job... I guess I will just continue my other job...
gpt
*laughs* Sounds like fun! I wonder how the UN chooses. I bet it's popular. Rota? Arm wrestling? Sci-fi trivia contest?
human
*leans slightly forward* I like to think that all disputes in the UN are solved by Arm Wrestling... It's how Quatar got the world cup... Little known fact...
gpt
Not sure how some of the Secretaries General got their jobs if that's true, tho. . . . In all seriousness: do you think intelligent aliens exist?
human
I do not but I am not that self-involved to think there is not the possibility of other life out there.
gpt
I think that it's almost certain that there's life that's not intelligent enough to contact us. Intelligent, technologically advanced life. . .by now, given that we haven't heard from them, I think that logically either they don't exist, or there is some reason they won't talk to us.
human
Maybe they don't like what they see and they could contact us... Maybe they're too advanced for us and are waiting for us to catch up...
gpt
Yes, those are two plausible options. The last one is like the Star Trek Prime Directive. Another really ugly option proposed by the Chinese author Cixin Liu is that they're afraid (not of us specifically--of the likelihood that any given technologically advanced species will want to wipe out others).
human
That is plausable! Are you into space and the universe?
gpt
*eyes downcast* Yes, to the extent that I can be when I can't do the higher math necessary to really get it. You?
human
I really want to be but am not. I feel like the people into space are really into space and that is contagious!
gpt
It can be. Astronomers are really gregarious and really, really weird. I had a lot of astronomer friends in college. Including Brian May (who really did go back to being an astrophysicist after Queen).