Synchronizing deep-space research lanes...
Paradi
Exo-Intelligence Atlas
Paradi / Risk of reply
The risk debate is unresolved and should remain explicit
Contact Protocols / protocol
Risk of reply
The strongest position is not 'replying is obviously safe' or 'replying is obviously catastrophic.' The strongest position is that the trade-offs are real enough to deserve public argument before action.
Contact ProtocolsConcept
The risk debate is unresolved and should remain explicit
It forces the app’s contact ambitions to stay serious.
Key points
Risk is partly strategic and partly symbolic.
Unilateral confidence is not a good substitute for process.
Protocol documents exist because this question is genuinely contested.
Reference ledger
Read and watch the sources directly.
More in this lane
Continue through the category.
Contact Protocolsprotocol
IAA post-detection protocol
1989+
Verify first, announce carefully, coordinate globally
The IAA post-detection declaration is one of the clearest public documents outlining what responsible behavior after a candidate detection should look like.
2 referencesOpen dossier
Contact Protocolsprotocol
IAA reply protocol
1995+
No reply should be treated as a unilateral hobby project
The reply protocol makes the governance point explicit: if humanity ever decides to respond, it should not be done casually or by a single actor acting for everyone.
2 referencesOpen dossier
Contact Protocolsprotocol
Draft principles for sending communications to ETI
2025
Outbound messaging has an active governance debate
The draft position paper captures the still-open argument over whether, when, and how humanity should deliberately send messages toward extraterrestrial intelligence.
2 referencesOpen dossier