SUBJECT>Re: What should Enoch ask next?
POSTER>joule 
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DATE>July 09, 1997 at 15:16:34
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Actually, I'd bet that Gen-Exploration does not want their probe to destroy anything that might be economically valuable, including aliens, so I'm not comfortable with saying that it wants to destroy. Feels a little racist (maybe that's too strong a word) to make such broad and negative generalizations about a probe that we know so little about. That's the optimist in me speaking. I'd like to think that if Gen-Exploration understood what its probe had found, it would not be so quick to fire on anything that moved. I'd like to think that the J-probe's AI programming is simply woefully inadequate. I'm also uncomfortable with characterizing Gen as evil. For all we know, in the ETs eyes the human race may be a single unit, i.e. we're all brothers. However, when two families meet for the first time, they usually show a little bit of solidarity, rather than sharing all the nasty details of the internal family squabbles with their new friends. Of course, it may also be true that the ET's brothers fight among themselves sometimes just like we do.<p>Mostly just thinking out loud here. Your version sounds good. And I'd still like to ask if they are amphibian in our sense of the word. It might clear up whether their second sentence refered to Earth or the purple planet.<p>joule

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