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>friendly or not
The Ramans from RwR end up being nuetral robots that aren't interested in humanity.
>Ramans do everything in 3s
man this predictive programming stuff is creepy. what if the third interstellar comet turns out to be a ship? or all three?
>when a low-tech civilization comes into one that is lightyears ahead, it usually ends disastrous for the low-tech one
if another "new world" continent was discovered today, with primitive people living there, do you think our civilization would still repeat the same evils?
I think maybe, but less likely than before. you know there'd be crowds of scientists calling for "no contact", compare that to when Columbus brought back enslaved natives to Spain and what the experts of that time wrote about them.
if the new continent had oil though i don't think anything would stop Russia and the U.S from fighting over who gets to genocide
more advanced = less likely, so maybe very advanced = even less likely?

3body has a good take on it. the answer they come up with is realistic too. MAD through making a loud noise, if aliens can get here, are hostile, and they are quiet, that implies being loud as fuck would be bad for both of us

it's only a comet though. besides, intergalactic ai have already made contact. but our leaders don't want to face up to that, and are making the most out of a difference in time scales to live it up and pass the problem on to the next generation