re: 3 Body Problem - Netflix

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Someone explained it to you already. They communicate telepathically and are incapable of lying to each other. It’s not crazy to suggest that a species who evolved in this way might be surprised to find out that another sapient species routinely tells outright falsehoods.

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Telepathy is a sci-fi construct. Just SAYING things exist isn't explaining how this makes any sense. Aside from the nonsense of them 'evolving' like this, their planet gets obliterated time and time again. Resetting their civilization AND their ecology. Having to start over, as it were, hardly affronts them the time required to 'evolve' telepathically. And even if they could, they'd only be able to communicate with each other that way. The rest of their animal and plant kingdom wouldn't.

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You’re arguing about it using animals that are incapable of speech (and also happened to evolve in the same ecosystem as us) as evidence, and it’s just.. kind of silly given the context.

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Except it isn't. Animals 'communicate', even if they have no formal or structured language. The Trisolarans would know this, even if they communicate differently. They'd see how camouflage and other mimicking abilities help animals survive.