![]() For example, the novel 'The Killing Star' puts forth the idea that game theory + relativity implies that all spacefaring civilizations' best move is to hide as best they can and use relativistic weaponry to immediately wipe out any other civilization they detect, because a relativistic impactor is a weapon that cannot be detected in advance or defended against. Specifically because game theory also establishes things like military thinking about 'how should we approach a totally unknown entity with unknown technological capabilities consistent with our current understanding of physics?'. ![]() One thing to consider would be how different game theory would look in a civilization that effectively acts as an entity with a single unified shared goal, versus a civilization built to be stable against entities with wildly opposed goals coexisting. ![]() But the other species have been learning. Then humans start thinking of becoming the de facto leaders of a galactic alliance. Humans, being used to cooperate with someone they can't hear the thoughts of, manage to establish interspecies trade for the first time in the galaxy. A starfish person would never hurt another starfish person, nor would a bee person hurt another bee person, but the starfish and bee people have been at war for centuries. ![]() The aliens are struggling with non-telepathic empathy, including between separate hiveminds. The gist is that, because these other races work together so much better than humankind does, they didn't wipe one another out, and worked together.I could see it going the other way. Also, certain advanced technologies make physical space broadly irrelevant, such as digital uploading (which renders the carrying capacity of Earth functionally infinite) or microgravity adaptations (which means all the rocks in the galaxy can suddenly host people, and there are so, so many of them). In order to prevent humans from spreading like violent, violent rabbits, other species reached out and made contact, inviting humans to galactic civilization.I can see why humans would be extremely violent in this scenario, but why are they massively expansionistic? Post-demographic transition human societies have problems with population decline not growth. But humankind got lucky, and started colonizing other planets. Humanity was viewed, before achieving galactic relevance, as one of many species doomed to failure, wiping themselves out as they grew smarter. The gist is that, because these other races work together so much better than humankind does, they didn't wipe one another out, and worked together. In order to prevent humans from spreading like violent, violent rabbits, other species reached out and made contact, inviting humans to galactic civilization. ![]() Or, for some species, they're literally only a small number of true consciousnesses, spread across many bodies. Violence, while not entirely unknown, is incredibly rare, because if you commit a violent act on another member of your species, you feel it too. Humanity reaches the stars, finds out they're not alone, but there's a key difference between humankind and other species.Įvery other race has some level of hivemind or empathic resonance. ![]()
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