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Diplomatic Considerations for First Contact
Diplomacy between human beings can be dicey as it is. Imagine humans trying to work things out with a non-human intelligence that has come here from wherever there is.
Alex Beyman / alexbeyman.medium.com/
May 24
Paradox Plaza
The usual rules of diplomacy will change when we begin to engage a significantly more intelligent and technologically advanced species. Many mainstays of human diplomacy will likely no longer apply, and many strategies that are very effective on human diplomats may become a liability when applied to non-human diplomats.
Deception is a Two-Way Street
We cannot deceive them. There’s nothing embarrassing we might wish to conceal about humanity which they could not investigate for themselves, and we haven’t the means to prevent them from doing so. They will have long since had access to the internet, which paints a grisly but mostly accurate picture of the full spectrum of human behavior and thinking. Attempts at deceit are also less effective the smarter your intended target is. If you have small children, think about times they’ve attempted to deceive you. Not effective, and not a good look.
Besides humans being unable to deceive more intelligent aliens, we should also be wary that they would have an easy time deceiving us. The sophistication of a deceit able to fool them would very likely be too much for human minds to see through. Nevertheless there are a few dozen extremely common, recurring varieties of scam which continue to be in circulation because they never stop working. The complexity of the obfuscatory wrapping used to conceal these scams can be scaled up to fool different levels of intelligence but are nevertheless possible to reliably unravel if one identifies their fundamental anatomical structure via heuristic analysis.
The Whole God Thing
The primary diplomats chosen to engage their own representatives probably should not be American Evangelicals. There’s a conspiracy theory gaining traction among that group that aliens are just demons in disguise, and government disclosure of UFOs is just setting the stage for a holographically faked alien invasion that will be used to explain away mass disappearances that will actually be a result of the rapture. This is known as the “Project Blue Beam” conspiracy as recounted in “The Coming Alien Deception,” the Facade series of novels by Michael Heiser and a variety of similar writings by the Evangelical conspiracy theory community. We cannot hide these people or their ideas from alien diplomats, but we can ensure whoever we send to represent us doesn’t call them demons to their faces.
The primary diplomats chosen to engage the alien representatives probably should also not be Scientologists, Mormons, Raelians, Ancient Aliens advocates or members of the Nation of Islam, all of whom have very detailed, specific mythologies concerning past interactions of aliens with humanity. If these accounts are not grounded in fact, but we send representatives who believe these accounts are factual and present them as such, it would likely not make a positive impression.
Nevertheless in the interests of transparency and inclusiveness, the leadership of major world religions (or representatives chosen democratically in the case of religions with no centralized leadership) should be present in some capacity and have their voices heard. Excluding them completely would come off as an attempt to conceal them out of embarrassment, and the visitors will by this time already be well aware of their existence and the popularity of religious thought on Earth.
We should expect them to also have some sort of spiritual tradition, but not religions structured the same way as the currently popular religions on Earth. This is because the dominant religions of Earth are Abrahamic and adhere to the same viral formula designed to entice belief with a bribe, deter apostasy with a threat (both unfalsifiable) pre-empt skepticism with an invisible trickster responsible for all contrary evidence, etc. etc. which is not obvious to all humans, but would be obvious to something with substantially improved reasoning abilities for the same reason the story of Santa Claus convinces children, but not adults.
CONTINUE READING: medium.com/on-the-trail-of-the-saucers/diplomatic-considerations-for-first-contact-with-non-terrestrial-intelligence-1e623ee9a895
Diplomatic Considerations for First Contact
Diplomacy between human beings can be dicey as it is. Imagine humans trying to work things out with a non-human intelligence that has come here from wherever there is.
Alex Beyman / alexbeyman.medium.com/
May 24
Paradox Plaza
The usual rules of diplomacy will change when we begin to engage a significantly more intelligent and technologically advanced species. Many mainstays of human diplomacy will likely no longer apply, and many strategies that are very effective on human diplomats may become a liability when applied to non-human diplomats.
Deception is a Two-Way Street
We cannot deceive them. There’s nothing embarrassing we might wish to conceal about humanity which they could not investigate for themselves, and we haven’t the means to prevent them from doing so. They will have long since had access to the internet, which paints a grisly but mostly accurate picture of the full spectrum of human behavior and thinking. Attempts at deceit are also less effective the smarter your intended target is. If you have small children, think about times they’ve attempted to deceive you. Not effective, and not a good look.
Besides humans being unable to deceive more intelligent aliens, we should also be wary that they would have an easy time deceiving us. The sophistication of a deceit able to fool them would very likely be too much for human minds to see through. Nevertheless there are a few dozen extremely common, recurring varieties of scam which continue to be in circulation because they never stop working. The complexity of the obfuscatory wrapping used to conceal these scams can be scaled up to fool different levels of intelligence but are nevertheless possible to reliably unravel if one identifies their fundamental anatomical structure via heuristic analysis.
The Whole God Thing
The primary diplomats chosen to engage their own representatives probably should not be American Evangelicals. There’s a conspiracy theory gaining traction among that group that aliens are just demons in disguise, and government disclosure of UFOs is just setting the stage for a holographically faked alien invasion that will be used to explain away mass disappearances that will actually be a result of the rapture. This is known as the “Project Blue Beam” conspiracy as recounted in “The Coming Alien Deception,” the Facade series of novels by Michael Heiser and a variety of similar writings by the Evangelical conspiracy theory community. We cannot hide these people or their ideas from alien diplomats, but we can ensure whoever we send to represent us doesn’t call them demons to their faces.
The primary diplomats chosen to engage the alien representatives probably should also not be Scientologists, Mormons, Raelians, Ancient Aliens advocates or members of the Nation of Islam, all of whom have very detailed, specific mythologies concerning past interactions of aliens with humanity. If these accounts are not grounded in fact, but we send representatives who believe these accounts are factual and present them as such, it would likely not make a positive impression.
Nevertheless in the interests of transparency and inclusiveness, the leadership of major world religions (or representatives chosen democratically in the case of religions with no centralized leadership) should be present in some capacity and have their voices heard. Excluding them completely would come off as an attempt to conceal them out of embarrassment, and the visitors will by this time already be well aware of their existence and the popularity of religious thought on Earth.
We should expect them to also have some sort of spiritual tradition, but not religions structured the same way as the currently popular religions on Earth. This is because the dominant religions of Earth are Abrahamic and adhere to the same viral formula designed to entice belief with a bribe, deter apostasy with a threat (both unfalsifiable) pre-empt skepticism with an invisible trickster responsible for all contrary evidence, etc. etc. which is not obvious to all humans, but would be obvious to something with substantially improved reasoning abilities for the same reason the story of Santa Claus convinces children, but not adults.
CONTINUE READING: medium.com/on-the-trail-of-the-saucers/diplomatic-considerations-for-first-contact-with-non-terrestrial-intelligence-1e623ee9a895