Eliezer Yudkowsky wrote a story Kindness to Kin about aliens who love(?) their family members proportionally to the Hamilton’s “I’d lay down my life for two brothers or eight cousins” rule. It gives an idea to how alien it is.Then again, Proto-Indo-European had detailed family words that correspond rather well to confidence of genetic kinship, so maybe it’s a cultural thing.
Eliezer Yudkowsky wrote a story Kindness to Kin about aliens who love(?) their family members proportionally to the Hamilton’s “I’d lay down my life for two brothers or eight cousins” rule. It gives an idea to how alien it is.
Then again, Proto-Indo-European had detailed family words that correspond rather well to confidence of genetic kinship, so maybe it’s a cultural thing.