> I think it's plausible that a god would not want to talk to another intelligent civilization. Why would we? We would be to a god what bacteria is to us.
At that level of abstraction it might make more sense to think of humanity itself as an organism, and to their point of view an infant one. At the point we either either birth an AI or elevate people to digital organisms with vastly greater intelligence, then we've "matured".
There's still reasons for adults to talk to or help adolescents, mainly to help them mature well, so there might be reasons for "gods" to talk to us.
It might also be that we're only at the stage of speaking gibberish, so there's still a bit to wait.
maybe we are just "ants" for them. That would be the current intelligence level of humanity for aliens.
Doesn't the cities, human civilization on Earth feel like a big messy anthill?
All our society could feel for them just like what we see when we look to what ants have built.
"Nice engineering down there, they communicate using sounds and directed energy, nice they've discovered electricity, they solve their conflict using mostly primitive kinetic weapons. Hey they have developed shows to fill the free time they've got now after having setup some automatization. And now they have a planet reaching data network, how nice.
They're quite aggressive tough, I wouldn't put my finger in there, they bite, hard enough"
I don't expect ants, either as an individual ant or as a colony, to necessarily be able to hold a conversation given enough time, but an alien species more advanced than us, or a godlike AI, may expect at some point in the future we might be able to, or might birth something that is able to (if not, where did they come from?), which is why I think they would be more likely to view us as infants currently incapable of conversing with them usefully rather than bugs with no hope of doing so.
At that level of abstraction it might make more sense to think of humanity itself as an organism, and to their point of view an infant one. At the point we either either birth an AI or elevate people to digital organisms with vastly greater intelligence, then we've "matured".
There's still reasons for adults to talk to or help adolescents, mainly to help them mature well, so there might be reasons for "gods" to talk to us.
It might also be that we're only at the stage of speaking gibberish, so there's still a bit to wait.