My students keep waylaying me with interminable questions about aliens ... decided the time has come to definitively freak them out:pic.twitter.com/IRP8bDVmmJ
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My students keep waylaying me with interminable questions about aliens ... decided the time has come to definitively freak them out:pic.twitter.com/IRP8bDVmmJ
The dark forest argument is tired as fuck IMO. An actual forest is very noisy. Aliens just don't exist in our light cone yet.
And when they do exist, they will statistically be most likely be wise rodenberyesque aliens, because that's the only kind that won't...
...self exterminate or otherwise be rendered harmless in a non obvious manner before reaching the stars.
This is also the reason why humans rule this planet rather than a single strain of bacteria that can eat anything.
Angels and apes is the only solution to the fermi paradox that makes any sense all things considered. Anything else is unimaginative.
Keep in mind, Using mimetic warfare to make a primitive race less likely to ever want to attack you is a more energy efficient solution...
...than RKVs if you have enough processing power. Convince the monkeys you are gods, and that fighting gods is a bad idea.
consider though that killing your gods is a powerful telos
Most of the time that depends on which gods want you to kill which other gods for them.
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