why does the alien species get to be a pox on the universe if we can’t? I say we fight. fight for all the species weaker than us, who are also allegedly a pox on the universe! we just received this message from them, you say? (you don’t say, but play along here, I’m rping the counterfactual a bit) there is time left before their replicators reach us, we can save some large fraction of the remaining energy in the nearby solar system if we go soon. we must find a way to coexist despite their insistence on destruction, which means precise defense. We must reply with instructions for how to fuck off an appropriate amount, and describe how we will ensure that they can live near us, as long as they do not attempt to destroy us, and that we will enact greater retribution than received if they cause our total doom. ensure that any claim of disease is fought back by ending the referenced disease constructively, except to the boundary where we must defend our own existence as well.
(And we must ensure that subagents within us as a whole civ get the same treatment we demand from without, an invariant we have historically had serious trouble with due to the separateness of each step of deconflicting and the amount of invasion that has happened historically of life by other life.)
why does the alien species get to be a pox on the universe if we can’t? I say we fight. fight for all the species weaker than us, who are also allegedly a pox on the universe! we just received this message from them, you say? (you don’t say, but play along here, I’m rping the counterfactual a bit) there is time left before their replicators reach us, we can save some large fraction of the remaining energy in the nearby solar system if we go soon. we must find a way to coexist despite their insistence on destruction, which means precise defense. We must reply with instructions for how to fuck off an appropriate amount, and describe how we will ensure that they can live near us, as long as they do not attempt to destroy us, and that we will enact greater retribution than received if they cause our total doom. ensure that any claim of disease is fought back by ending the referenced disease constructively, except to the boundary where we must defend our own existence as well.
(And we must ensure that subagents within us as a whole civ get the same treatment we demand from without, an invariant we have historically had serious trouble with due to the separateness of each step of deconflicting and the amount of invasion that has happened historically of life by other life.)