Comment on Aliens decide to communicate with us

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

• unreasonabro@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  right but they’re psychic so you can actually communicate at a real rate instead of tripping over your meat trumpet

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  • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Oh okay, so all they’re going to hear about humanity is all the weird math shit I’ve been watching YouTube lectures on lately 😆.

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    • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      what book is it where they communicate with aliens starting with first principals of mathematics? we might be ok.

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      • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        But merely being able to communicate with people has never been sufficient to make peace with them, at least from my experience. Otherwise I’d be much more popular with people, because I never had trouble reading, listening to, and writing to people, but I’m not good at talking to people. I typically need a lot more prior information (i.e. cultural norms, dictionary of body language, recent local history, a catalog of an individual’s interests and their definitions, etc.) to talk to people effectively, which I often don’t have or acquire by fucking up enough times to figure it out by hand 🙃.

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