Historically, Europe was decimated by something much smaller than an ant. Additionally, in an unknown strategic situation, it is generally inadvisable to turn

Historically, Europe was decimated by something much smaller than an ant. Additionally, in an unknown strategic situation, it is generally inadvisable to turn your situation with asymmetric information into one which informs the other players of your true state of play. Now you might say, its would be pretty obvious that we're a comparatively primitive society. Maybe, maybe not. That makes a lot of simple assumptions about the nature of technology, instellar travel, and the possibilities of subterfuge and misdirection in a game with unknown players, unknown context, unknown goals, of unknown capability. So from a purely theoretical perspective, I respectfully disagree. The rational strategy is some function that trades off information-gathering directly against information-hiding on your own state of play. Our species is arguably being the crazy ones sending out signals blindly into the ether without a care...