Star Trek – Uncommon Descent

Is Star Trek’s Prime Directive keeping us from spotting aliens?

The Prime Directive is, don’t interfere in the evolution of alien societies, even if you have good intentions. So are they making it hard for us to spot them?

Mac McTavish { I have always thought that classifying ideas as left, right,... }
AaronS1978 { Hey did anyone see that article on science mag that... }
Truthfreedom { 164 JVL ???? If I have 47 results regarding a... }
Querius { What an excellent post, Harry! As Mao once said, "Political... }
kairosfocus { ET, Sev, capacity for evil is another way -- loaded... }
JVL { ET: JVL is still clueless. “Mainstream science” doesn’t know how... }
JVL { You have a fatal flaw in your position JVL. You... }
JVL { Truthfreedom: You can’t know that the reasoning above leads to... }
Upright BiPed { . Oh and Bob ... just one more thing. Anytime... }
polistra { No problem. Evolution and AI are fashionable, so they will... }
Truthfreedom { 18 Bob O'H Tf– I certainly can’t know all of... }
Upright BiPed { . Facepalm So Bob, when you conjured up distributive system... }
Truthfreedom { There is not such a thing as scientifically provable "random... }
Truthfreedom { AWhat? Machine learning systems are focused on specific processes from... }
Bob O'H { Tf - I certainly can't know all of the contents.... }
Truthfreedom { 15 Bob O'H It’s certainly invalid to say something that... }
Truthfreedom { Bob O'H I have the expertise and knowledge to be... }
kairosfocus { Re: Outsourcing We should outsource philosophy to AI. KF }
Bob O'H { UB @ 13 - it's certainly invalid to say something... }
Truthfreedom { 12 Bob O'H I don’t need to. I visit this... }
Upright BiPed { . Bob, is it somehow invalid and critical of evolution... }