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10,040karma·2,605submissions·May 27, 2017
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I'll be back.
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Peter F Hamilton, in "Pandora's Star", introduces his enemy alien race all in one go, from the beginnings of their civilization to meeting humans. It is AWESOME. By the time you get bac…
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The aliens didn't build the pyramids, they merely advised the human architects by, e.g., imparting knowledge of geometry and metallurgy.
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They offered the world order!
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Exactly. It's much easier for people to reason about utilitarian ethics when it involves ridiculously unrealistic scenarios like the trolley problem.
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Has anyone here read Larry Niven's Gift From Earth? This is literally the plot (but on another planet).
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What does she do when she needs to draw something from imagination?
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Such as?