First Contact Could Turn Out Well for Humanity
First contact with advanced extraterrestrials goes very badly for us. But in reality, how bad could it be? That’s the question a new study examines using game theory and Hobbesian philosophy.
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@Nonog Does it occur to anyone that first contact probably happened a million years ago?
It’s too late to ask Eisenhower, but he did warn us all at the end of his tenure…
And then of course JFK got on the wrong side of it all, so at least until now it has not gone down too well