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by ShinyLeftPad 33 days ago
> Why send a group or probe lightyears away just to kill or enslave a primitive species?

Killing/enslavement just as a side effect. You have to tell it explicitly to NOT kill/enslave covering any edge cases. Even if they do we can turn out to be sufficiently different that the probe doesn't consider us relevant from aliens' standpoint.