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If life is as rare as it appears from observations of stars, the sheer rarity would make it interesting to any other intelligent life.If the alien is a evolved social species (as opposed to eusocial, engineered) you can expect most of the same motivation as humans.Which is to say good chance that alien intellectuals will need us to "prove" their grand theories of life. Alien moralists will spread moralisms here and back their. Alien bureaucrats will try to figure out how to imposed more rules on everyone everywhere. Alien capitalists will try profit from tourism and trade while monopolizing the operation. Alien imperialists will be thinking about how to use military power on the matter. Alien conservationists will be trying to stop first contact and so and so on.It is the same reason why humans bother learning about dophins even though they do not hold useful resources.Humans are too developed to be seen as a mere curiosity, as the secrets of interplanetory existence and general machine intelligence is accessible with a century if collapse does not happen. Without stuff like non-turing intelligences and post relativistic physics aliens may not be all that ahead.
If life is as rare as it appears from observations of stars, the sheer rarity would make it interesting to any other intelligent life.
If the alien is a evolved social species (as opposed to eusocial, engineered) you can expect most of the same motivation as humans.
Which is to say good chance that alien intellectuals will need us to "prove" their grand theories of life. Alien moralists will spread moralisms here and back their. Alien bureaucrats will try to figure out how to imposed more rules on everyone everywhere. Alien capitalists will try profit from tourism and trade while monopolizing the operation. Alien imperialists will be thinking about how to use military power on the matter. Alien conservationists will be trying to stop first contact and so and so on.
It is the same reason why humans bother learning about dophins even though they do not hold useful resources.
Humans are too developed to be seen as a mere curiosity, as the secrets of interplanetory existence and general machine intelligence is accessible with a century if collapse does not happen. Without stuff like non-turing intelligences and post relativistic physics aliens may not be all that ahead.
