Timeline for How can communicating in human language with an unconscious alien species be treated as an attack?

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Sep 17, 2021 at 16:44	history	edited	Jenayah	CC BY-SA 4.0	deleted 1 character in body
Dec 17, 2019 at 13:17	comment	added	Quartz2		also, during the onslaught of scramblers against Theseus, the writer mentions, where 2 of scramblers touch the ship they arc. And they carry weapons, but what sort of weapons are they welding or how they engage in combat?? So Rorschach loses the war and they learned not to send their scramblers in that direction?
Dec 17, 2019 at 12:41	comment	added	AakashM		The outcome is left deliberately ambiguous but I think we are to assume Theseus' matter-antimatter explosion takes out Rorschach in a kamikaze attack. The game theory stuff harks back to the earlier discussion of 'technology implies belligerence'; if word gets back to the Rorschach homeworld, it will be word of a defeat, I think.
Dec 17, 2019 at 12:28	comment	added	Quartz2		Also, I am intrigued by the game theory of the novel. Siri mentions that Rorschach will not retaliate against humans after Theseus smashed into big ben, out of some kind of game theory? but why? Did the spaceship explode with the blob of Rorschach or it get stopped by them before crashing into big ben?
Dec 17, 2019 at 12:26	comment	added	Quartz2		Thanks! thats explains the conflict clearly, since they have no consciousness, they cant have feelings or understand what is "I" from the Rorschach's point of view
Dec 17, 2019 at 12:23	history	answered	AakashM	CC BY-SA 4.0