Incomprehensible messages are a failure mode that indicates insufficiently advanced capabilities. Ambiguity doesn’t help with that message, to the current or to the successor civ.
I mean, yeah, a clever writer can think up scenarios that kind of work on first blush, and are probably good enough for a Netflix series. But I haven’t heard any that actually work out as either intentional or accidental physical acquisition of hard evidence by a small group of humans, who then understand the situation well enough to keep it secret for decades.
Incomprehensible messages are a failure mode that indicates insufficiently advanced capabilities. Ambiguity doesn’t help with that message, to the current or to the successor civ.
You do not understand what I am saying. The message is not for us and so our inability to interpret the message is irrelevant. Ambiguity and in general the small amount of relevant information is an important security property that helps ensure the aliens do not convey more than they mean to.
Incomprehensible messages are a failure mode that indicates insufficiently advanced capabilities. Ambiguity doesn’t help with that message, to the current or to the successor civ.
I mean, yeah, a clever writer can think up scenarios that kind of work on first blush, and are probably good enough for a Netflix series. But I haven’t heard any that actually work out as either intentional or accidental physical acquisition of hard evidence by a small group of humans, who then understand the situation well enough to keep it secret for decades.
You do not understand what I am saying. The message is not for us and so our inability to interpret the message is irrelevant. Ambiguity and in general the small amount of relevant information is an important security property that helps ensure the aliens do not convey more than they mean to.