My issue with this thesis is it anthropomorphizes intentions and capabilities. We're predicting the behavior of civilizations a lot more advanced than us. We n

My issue with this thesis is it anthropomorphizes intentions and capabilities. We're predicting the behavior of civilizations a lot more advanced than us. We need a level of humility to realize that this is a lost cause, and a lot of the paradigms we take for granted will be shown to be false. So while everything you said makes sense, the space of unknown unknowns is so large that we should moderate our confidence in the underlying assumptions downwards.