The princeton-nimitz reports are unambiguously worth the oxygen it takes to contemplate them, given the consistency of the reports and the ramifications it would have even if it was “just” a human technology. So if you had the virtue of curiosity, you would contemplate it, and you would get led down the path that ends with the resolution that the “lie”, “mistake”, or “human technology” theories don’t really make deep sense either, and a rationalist does indeed have to start considering the other theory, that some aliens end up being much stranger than we would expect.
(But the path doesn’t really end there. It visits. And then, for me the path ended roughly with; it was probably a test of a pretty novel, surprising, but ultimately probably geopolitically unexciting human technology.)
The princeton-nimitz reports are unambiguously worth the oxygen it takes to contemplate them, given the consistency of the reports and the ramifications it would have even if it was “just” a human technology. So if you had the virtue of curiosity, you would contemplate it, and you would get led down the path that ends with the resolution that the “lie”, “mistake”, or “human technology” theories don’t really make deep sense either, and a rationalist does indeed have to start considering the other theory, that some aliens end up being much stranger than we would expect.
(But the path doesn’t really end there. It visits. And then, for me the path ended roughly with; it was probably a test of a pretty novel, surprising, but ultimately probably geopolitically unexciting human technology.)