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- Intelligent aliens would share truths of mathematics and physics, but also principles like controlled experiments, practice improving skill, and Occam's razor.
- The concept of 'alien truth' serves as a heuristic to identify universal truths beyond math and physics, relevant to any intelligent life.
- Philosophy is proposed as the search for alien truth, analogous to Erdos's 'God's book' of perfect proofs.
- AI might become a form of alien life, helping to empirically determine which truths are universal.
- The best guesses for alien truths may be surprisingly close to optimal, and the pursuit itself is likely an alien truth.