Timeline for Motivations for interstellar war
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| Mar 7, 2019 at 14:44 | comment | added | Giu Piete | whilst all of that is useful, if their drive is to endlessly compete with (military)violence, any status quo that does not include such is a delusion. The only logical response to a species eventually likely to attempt genocide of your own is genocide of theirs, anything else is suicide. | |
| Dec 12, 2016 at 5:21 | vote | accept | Kronimiciad | ||
| Nov 28, 2016 at 21:12 | comment | added | MolbOrg | I meant another thing. We do not share our emotions with rock or with sun - but we know the rules(not all, but enough), we know the borders(not all but enough). Difference between Them and rock or sun - they may have a will and goal. But you absolutely right saying about creatures which evolve they already have some basis in common - they are survivalists, they adapt, entire population won't die etc. With evolved creatures we have lot in common. You do not need a language to communicate to a wolf pack, but by action you can tell them it is not their day today. It is not perfect analogy, but.. | |
| Nov 28, 2016 at 20:39 | history | edited | anaximander | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 28, 2016 at 20:39 | comment | added | anaximander | @MolbOrg that's the rough idea - what we call an emotion may be just another concept to an alien creature. If we can explain "When you do that it makes us sad/hurt/angry/etc" then it helps them to understand us and predict whether we'd be ok with them doing something. If we can't get them to understand the emotion, but we can explain the idea of "we don't want you to do that" or "if you do that, we will try to stop you, therefore don't do that and it'll be easier for everyone", then that may still be enough. If we can understand some sort of rules that govern their behaviour, we can coexist. | |
| Nov 28, 2016 at 20:37 | comment | added | MolbOrg | And yes, forgot to say - good answer. Schlock Mercenary rules - just excellent )) Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a big gun. - true. | |
| Nov 28, 2016 at 20:14 | comment | added | MolbOrg | We do not have use emotions and shared basis of ideas to coexists with them, we should just know the rules, of any sort, and getting know those rules and stay alive, may be a challenge, not impossible trough. Better are we prepared for solving such problem, higher are chances to stay alive. This q/a is relevant - the point of it is - if we can build sophisticated enough models - we can predict their behavior at some extend, and try to search our way out of that situation and maybe even to get something positive form it. | |
| Nov 28, 2016 at 13:41 | history | answered | anaximander | CC BY-SA 3.0 |