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What do we do if SETI is successful?

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kyledrake ◴[] No.45665378[source]
> Even Carl Sagan (a general believer that any civilization advanced enough for interstellar travel would be altruistic, not hostile) called the practice of METI “deeply unwise and immature,” and recommended that “the newest children in a strange and uncertain cosmos should listen quietly for a long time, patiently learning about the universe and comparing notes, before shouting into an unknown jungle that we do not understand.

https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/fermi-paradox.html

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jcarrano ◴[] No.45666171[source]
Carl Sagan doxxed the Earth with the Voyager disk.
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Cthulhu_ ◴[] No.45667522[source]
The probe (and disc) are infintesmally small in the grand scheme of things, if there's anything that would reveal the position of Earth it's our own signal emissions, which are well ahead of the Voyager probes (the first radio signals are now ~125 light years away. No idea if they can still be detected among background radiation though)
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1. pants2 ◴[] No.45669877[source]
I was curious about this and got some interesting insights from GPT-5 if anyone's curious:

https://chatgpt.com/share/68f8ed38-876c-800e-8df2-01c29890f3...

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2. int_19h ◴[] No.45691160[source]
I notice that there's not a single reference in that entire response. How do you know which parts of it are hallucinated and which aren't?