rainy_moon_bear t1_irlqtuc wrote on October 9, 2022 at 5:58 AM

I think that the Fermi Paradox could indicate that the frontier of ASI is a potential cause for the great filter if it exists.
A lack of evidence that other life has expanded to the point of being noticeable by us is either news that we will be the first, or that we are facing certain failure.

UnionPacifik OP t1_irnhtg9 wrote on October 9, 2022 at 4:42 PM

I like this. It does feel like we’re in Great Filter territory, but filters are just tests and humans looooove solving tests and we’re pretty good at it.

[deleted] t1_iroasn6 wrote on October 9, 2022 at 7:51 PM

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rainy_moon_bear t1_irowxts wrote on October 9, 2022 at 10:27 PM

Yeah there are more than two possibilities I was just being dramatic XD

[deleted] t1_irwu1p6 wrote on October 11, 2022 at 5:08 PM

This is very speculative but a post singularity civilisationen might be able to make computronium that you can't distinguish from non-computronium. Then they could convert the universe into it without us noticing.