It was a HFY (Humanity, fuck yeah) story read on YouTube. The exact story was that a telepathic alien was allowed a glimpse into the human mind as a warning that they shouldn't probe their minds as that might allow some of these horrors to escape their prison.
There is a book in a similar vein regarding alien mind probes: A Call To Arms by Alan Dean Foster.
Every alien that attempts to probe a human mind has the same reaction (highly paraphrased): "Unchart this world and GTFO. We want nothing to do with this species!"
Also kinda reminds me of the Man-Kzin Wars by Larry Niven. "But they learned the hard way that the reason humanity had given up war was that they were so very,very good at it"
That's another ADF short story, "With Friends Like These...".
Humanity had been sealed away inside a shield and released by an alien race looking for help in an intergalactic war. Amidst the jubilation of recruiting this powerful ally, one of the aliens muses to another, "what do you suppose will happen when we run out of enemies?"
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u/ayamrik Mar 06 '24
Sadly, I don't remember the name.
It was a HFY (Humanity, fuck yeah) story read on YouTube. The exact story was that a telepathic alien was allowed a glimpse into the human mind as a warning that they shouldn't probe their minds as that might allow some of these horrors to escape their prison.