Imagine an advanced alien civilization.

It's hard for me to imagine without some technologies. It must have some forms of AI, it must have some forms of robust smart contracts, it must have encryption.

Are they using paper money? Paper ballots for elections? What else seems implausible?

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you're judging aliens with human categories

read Blindsight by Watts to start with, will blow your mind multiple times per reading

also i'd recommend watching lovedeathrobots.fandom.com/wiki/Swarm

alien species don't need any of these as they probably don't have the limitations humans do

or just the remembrance of the earth's past, that's a good one too on how aliens are (somewhat) different from us (but still kinda humanoid)

or, hear me out, aliens can be *ideas* that propagate through space

or read the summary of aliens in Expanse :))