My students keep waylaying me with interminable questions about aliens ... decided the time has come to definitively freak them out:
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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.
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And when they do exist, they will statistically be most likely be wise rodenberyesque aliens, because that's the only kind that won't...
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...self exterminate or otherwise be rendered harmless in a non obvious manner before reaching the stars.
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This is also the reason why humans rule this planet rather than a single strain of bacteria that can eat anything.
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Angels and apes is the only solution to the fermi paradox that makes any sense all things considered. Anything else is unimaginative.
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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...
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...than RKVs if you have enough processing power. Convince the monkeys you are gods, and that fighting gods is a bad idea.
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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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