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When (not if) aliens show-up here on Earth, their means of communications will very likely not be linear speech or text. An advanced species will most certainly have evolved a higher form of communications. We may find ourselves unable to exchange thoughts, ideas, or the framework for discussion or compromise on key issues around mutual success. Could this lead to an unresolvable conflict of interest between species? Going further, when A.I. evolves to A.S.I. (when, not if), it will almost certainly develop similar, more efficient, communications skills, rendering our linear methods obsolete in a new world where we get left behind or marginalized in our continued evolution. How will humans keep up in either case?

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