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Originally Posted by ravens_cry
And SOME races may not give a rats buttocks. Sure it may not be wise, but they may not CARE. Besides, to an advanced civilization atomic bombs could be approximately as advanced as stone tools. They may not consider the implications, They may be arms merchants. They may be genocidal. A billion year old civilization may have capabilities that seem god like, but me with a bic lighter may seem god like to a people who are still stealing fire form the sky, as in lightning strikes. If there is a bigger threat sure, I can see why a billion year old civilization would want to hide their traces. But if they are the numeruo uno, they just may not CARE. In fact, if they have lasted over a billion years, then they could be selfish to the hilt, not caring to make grand stands, but also not caring what happens to other species. Also, they will be not wanting competition, so giving atomic bombs to cavemen, would be a perfect strategy for erasing competitors. You won't even have to worry about any OTHER life form arising on that planet to supplant you. Brilliant. The way I see it, if they are hiding, it means there is a bigger dog out there, and that means they are not gods, and if there isn't, they would have no reason to hide themselves.
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I think that when you are evil you will be doomed to extinction no matter how smart at lying are you.
The civilization what you describe would not even survive 20000 years, it will destroy itself.
And as "God like"
I MEAN GOD LIKE.I mean
THE MOST ADVANCED DEGREE OF DEVELOPEMENT POSSIBLE not what may seem "Godlike" to us.
Such civilization is
perfect, technologically, morally, intelligently, whatever.
Why they would do anything bad anyways if they already have everything?
Yes, if they had the capabilities from the beginning they could be evil.
But to survive billions of years you had to be pure good.
Before 20 years there was still a threat of humanity being destroying in a nuclear war and we a young and not too evil civilization.
This is the reason why they would be rare, to achieve that you must erase all agression, stupidity etc. totally completely from your brain and mind
FOR EVER.
"Evil gods" simply don't work.
When someone attempts to be the greatest by killing and hurting another, everyone will ally and destroy them.
These civilizations may not even use nanobots or gigabrains or whatever...they finally find a way how to live without normal material form and be totally invisible except for another similar beings.
I do not mean spirit wowoo, but things like storing ourself in a quantum foam, strings, elementary particles, pure spacetime curvature, dark matter or whatever.
And evil is a human concept, some beings may not even have concept for evil, these would be most likely to achieve godhood status, or no concept of good, in which case they wil mostly last extremely short.