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Three Worlds Collide (2000)

by Eliezer Yudkowsky(Favorite Author)

4.36 of 5 Votes: 5

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review 1: This short story describes a spaceship of humans in the future who make first contact with not one, but two intelligent alien races. The result involves spirited debate as each of the three realize they all have very different views on which moral facts are true.If you have a group of friends interested in metaethics, I strongly recommend you try printing out hard copies of this short story in sections, and read the story together in person. Each successive section will give you a lot to talk about, and there are few enough sections of short lengths that it will only take around 2.5 hours to read through every section with plenty of conversation between each.Those not as interested in metaethics will still get something out of the story, though they might not rate it as hi... moreghly as I have.
review 2: I wish Eliezer Yudkowsky was a full time writer. So many good ideas!This novella was about humans encountering the alien race of Babyeaters - who are civilized but eat their babies, and the humans, as soon as they learn of this, are morally shocked about the custom that is taken to be natural. Most of them want to wage war to save the babies (so cliche) and relieve them of their pain! But then, another alien race arrives, the Maximum Fun-Fun Ultra Super Happy People. One that thinks even having pain is morally repulsive, and want to rid humans of physical and mental pain, and make them... less human.Of course there is no right or wrong answer. And that's what makes a philosophical discussion about it so great. If as humans we want take enforce our morality on another race, what's stopping another race from doing so, too? less

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