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I think that Vladimir's points were valid, but that they definitely shouldn't have convinced you that the negative effects associated with sending signals into space are trivial (except in the trivial sense that no-one is likely to receive them).
Thanks for your remark. I agree that what I said in my last comment is too strong.
I'm not convinced that the negative effects associated with sending signals into space are trivial, but Vladimir's remarks did meaningfully lower my level of confidence in the notion that a really powerful optimization process would go out of its way to attack Earth in response to receiving a signal from us.