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Re:Ex-Google workers sue company, saying it betrayed 'Don't ... by adventured on Monday November 29, 2021 @06:44PM (#29386901)
Why would one ever default to believing aliens are likely to be highly enlightened? It's as likely that they're just lucky with resources, location, timing. They might be savages that primarily jump forward in technology by constantly fighting wars amongst themselves.

The aliens observing our supposed primitiveness are just the ones that came out on top in their latest civil war and went out exploring using the technology that the 14,000 years of war cultivated.

Maybe they're the most obnoxious, spoiled, entitled assholes you could ever imagine. Luck rolled their way ten thousand times in a row and they act like it.

There's absolutely no good reason to default to believing aliens are likely to be far more enlightened than we are.

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Re:Ex-Google workers sue company, saying it betrayed 'Don't ... by lovemenot on Monday November 29, 2021 @07:06PM (#29387087)
>> There's absolutely no good reason to default to believing aliens are likely to be far more enlightened than we are.

There's no good reason to imagine some civilisation has figured out how to cross the vast interstellar distances and then pop in to see us during their lifetime.

Since we are already in the realm of pure fantasy, it doesn't alter the argument's validity to also assume these magical creatures are enlightened.

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Re:Ex-Google workers sue company, saying it betrayed 'Don't ... by willcipriano on Monday November 29, 2021 @07:21PM (#29387192)
I don't assume they are enlightened, I assume they are just as random as us. They will eat children for dinner and speak entirely in curse words, and our customs will seem just as insane to them.

If you go back a couple hundred years and talk to the people then I imagine you could achieve a similar effect. They were just as certain they were correct as we are, and they are just as wrong.

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