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Human attributes for alien contact (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Lets say you get abducted by aliens.

They inform you that they want to make contact with human individuals, not the entire humanity. They have a limited telepathy and can "scan" for human mental traits like spiritualistic / non-spiritualistic, artistic / non-artistic, introverted / extroverted, anxious / chill, low / med / high IQ, technology oriented, business savvy, mathematically gifted, socially gifted, scientific, etc.

They want you to define traits that would make encounters go smoothly and be representative of humans.

Without knowing anything about those aliens or their interests. What is your answer?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

My immediate instinct is to lead them towards people like agorophobes or alien fetishists, because that would be funny. They should maybe have asked someone else.

A serious answer is that it probably matters more how they make contact than who they contact, if they want representative. People hide their true colours in big moments like that, so if they can make it less obvious they're aliens that's good.