Re: OT: _Remembrance of Earth's Past_

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.