OK, perhaps I could have been a little bit more precise with my language, given this is HN, but the overall point still stands. We have hands-on experience as

OK, perhaps I could have been a little bit more precise with my language, given this is HN, but the overall point still stands. We have hands-on experience as a species with technologically primitive societies being discovered by technologically advanced societies and going on to influence language and philosophy. Given this, I don't think it's a given that an advanced alien race would look at us as not worth their time.