Imagine being the first human to Rick Roll another species.

my good answer is the wikipedia page for human

by evil answer is the wikipedia page for the dark forest hypothesis

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“Mlorp, how do these beings even manage to procreate? This one is using the incorrect orifice, and this one removed his genital proboscis moments before copulation was complete!”

“Let’s leave them alone, Floop. They will extinct themselves shortly.”

I would send them a song letting them know I’d never gonna give them up.

The music video of Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley

I send Independence Day and to tell them it is a documentary. Now they know not to fuck with us.

A badly trained LLM.
Let them ask whatever they want of it without any way of verifying if what it says is correct.

That one fucked up hentai comic… I wanna give them mental distress as a leg up in the war between them and us.

Any episode of Ancient Aliens.

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Darmok, S5E2 of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

I think one of those nice Attenborough documentaries. Wasn’t there one that showcased the Earth? Seems like a nice gesture to put that forward.

Smarter people have already figured this out. I’d send them a copy of the golden record we put on Voyager. It contains the kinds of things that could convey “this is where we are, this is what we look like, we’ve figured out about this much of this universe so far, and we make stuff that isn’t utilitarian (art)”

A recording of 4’33".

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