Reminds me of the joke about sci-fi intelligent plants - they would have to be a product of intelligent design because of how useless the massive energetic int

Reminds me of the joke about sci-fi intelligent plants - they would have to be a product of intelligent design because of how useless the massive energetic intake to maintain it would be to something sessile. The some sort of environment is an important distinction - even if smart enough to derive linguistic translation on its own through "first contact" it could suggest we should generate free energy through floating point error exploits and destroy excess heat using the same because that worked perfectly well in its environment and it had no indication that wouldn't be possible in the real world.