Re: OT: _Remembrance of Earth's Past_

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