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  • OT: _Remembrance of Earth's Past_

    From Don Y@21:1/5 to All on Sun Sep 15 09:40:17 2024
    This was one of the slowest reads I've ever encountered!
    Early start tracked the TV series -- more or less.
    But, then turned into a lengthy exploration of cosmology
    and cosmogony.

    So, what started out as a ~7/10 ended up as a ~3/10.

    But, some interesting concepts (that would probably have
    been better presented without the pretext of a "story")

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  • From bitrex@21:1/5 to Don Y on Sun Sep 15 22:10:03 2024
    On 9/15/2024 12:40 PM, Don Y wrote:
    This was one of the slowest reads I've ever encountered!
    Early start tracked the TV series -- more or less.
    But, then turned into a lengthy exploration of cosmology
    and cosmogony.

    So, what started out as a ~7/10 ended up as a ~3/10.

    But, some interesting concepts (that would probably have
    been better presented without the pretext of a "story")


    It seems really difficult to reason abut the potential motivations of super-advanced alien civilizations, godlike artificial intelligences,
    and combinations thereof.

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  • From Don Y@21:1/5 to bitrex on Mon Sep 16 19:35:13 2024
    On 9/15/2024 7:10 PM, bitrex wrote:
    On 9/15/2024 12:40 PM, Don Y wrote:
    This was one of the slowest reads I've ever encountered!
    Early start tracked the TV series -- more or less.
    But, then turned into a lengthy exploration of cosmology
    and cosmogony.

    So, what started out as a ~7/10 ended up as a ~3/10.

    But, some interesting concepts (that would probably have
    been better presented without the pretext of a "story")

    It seems really difficult to reason abut the potential motivations of super-advanced alien civilizations, godlike artificial intelligences, and combinations thereof.

    I don't think you have to be *sure* of their motivations/reasoning.
    That doesn't preclude your opining about what they *might* be. Or,
    the "remedies" available to them in the case of *our* presence
    in that universe!

    _Alien_ (et al.) posited one type of alien culture; _ET_ an entirely
    different one (with _The Fifth Element_ addressing both!)

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