Aliens have been helping us develop super intelligent AI to bridge the gap between our species
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I would imagine that aliens wouldn’t just show up and try to figure things out from scratch. If they really wanted to communicate peacefully, I’d guess that they’d hide behind a nearby celestial object and listen to our radio signals. They’d want to minimize uncertainty and fear. By the time they let us detect them, they’d probably already be fluent in several major languages.
I would imagine that if an alien species is making first contact, they have a reason to want to communicate and would have prepared based on our broadcasts or would bring along a specialist to study our language quickly.
The other options would be an accidental contact, in which case they might not be as prepared, or a contact that they are indifferent about communicating with us, in which case we are likely fucked.”
Think of it like this; we are not very different from humans 2000 years ago but the speed at which we can collectively decode a new language is several orders of magnitude faster now than it was back then. Thanks to technology that we collectively invented; same holds true for any civilization more advanced than us.
No aliens smart enough to conquer the limitations of light-speed will have any way to understand the concept of war. It's that stupid.
Fun to speculate.
I'm thinking if they could get here then they're obviously far more advanced than us, beyond our understanding since we don't have the ability to space travel.
Would they be so advanced that we're just like mice to them or something? We are far more advanced than mice, but we can't directly communicate with them, only indirectly like giving them rewards of food to train them is a form of communication. But then, nothing else has the ability of language other than us, which is big thing separating us from animals.
Maybe aliens would find learning and using our language so easy and rudimentary that it would be as simple as us giving food to a mouse as a reward. Maybe aliens communicate telepathically and find language to be extremely slow and tedious. Who knows.
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I want to spank your sister with a slice of baloney.
octopi are already more sophisticated than humans, but we don't care about them