"Humankind!" the Lady 3rd said, as though addressing someone by name. "Humankind, you prefer the absence of pain to its presence. When my own kind attained to technology, we eliminated the causes of suffering among ourselves. Bodily pain, embarrassment, and romantic conflicts are no longer permitted to exist. Humankind, you prefer the presence of pleasure to its absence. We have devoted ourselves to the intensity of pleasure, of sex and childbirth and untranslatable 2. Humankind, you prefer truth to lies. By our nature we do not communicate statements disbelieved, as you do with humor, modesty, and fiction; we have even learned to refrain from withholding information, though we possess that capability. Humankind, you prefer peace to violence. Our society is without crime and without war. Through symmetric sharing and untranslatable 4, we share our joys and are pleasured together. Our name for ourselves is not expressible in your language. But to you, humankind, we now name ourselves after the highest values we share: we are the Maximum Fun-Fun Ultra Super Happy People."
I like these guys [http://lesswrong.com/lw/y4/three_worlds_collide_08/], and their enemies the Baby-Eaters are a close second. Unlike nearly all fictional aliens, these guys are truly alien, with a fundamentally different biology from humans.
I like these guys [http://lesswrong.com/lw/y4/three_worlds_collide_08/], and their enemies the Baby-Eaters are a close second. Unlike nearly all fictional aliens, these guys are truly alien, with a fundamentally different biology from humans.
