That crystal nights story. As I was reading it, it was like a mini Eliezer in my brain facepalming over and over.
Its clear that the characters have little idea how much suffering they caused, or how close they came to destroying humanity. It was basically luck that pocket universe creation caused a building wrecking explosion, not a supernova explosion. Its also basically luck that the Phites didn’t leave some nanogoo behind them. You still have a hyperrapid alien civ on the other side of that wormhole. One with known spacewarping tech, and good reason to hate you, or just want to stop you trying the same thing again, or to strip every last bit of info about their creation from human brains. How long until they invade?
This feels like an idiot who is playing with several barely subcritical lumps of uranium, and drops one on their foot.
That crystal nights story. As I was reading it, it was like a mini Eliezer in my brain facepalming over and over.
Its clear that the characters have little idea how much suffering they caused, or how close they came to destroying humanity. It was basically luck that pocket universe creation caused a building wrecking explosion, not a supernova explosion. Its also basically luck that the Phites didn’t leave some nanogoo behind them. You still have a hyperrapid alien civ on the other side of that wormhole. One with known spacewarping tech, and good reason to hate you, or just want to stop you trying the same thing again, or to strip every last bit of info about their creation from human brains. How long until they invade?
This feels like an idiot who is playing with several barely subcritical lumps of uranium, and drops one on their foot.