I guess what shocks me the most is how the author didn’t think to expand on the entertainment aspect of viewing Earth from afar to attempting communication, especially in the form of a Hail Mary or other last-resort style tactics. We send messages in bottles in the ocean to be retrieved even though it’s a one-in-a-million shot. Why not attempt communication? Especially if you don’t expect to hear anything back, this can definitely be done without looking crazy. The Seti Institute devotes its airwaves to attempting to find forms of extraterrestrial communication, and no one thinks they’re crazy. People pray to God all the time, and no one thinks they’re crazy. If the chances of us living in a simulation are so great, it would be bad investigative work to not form a plan just in case they’re listening. They might even be able to affect our lives in some small or large way.
