NO. It only takes *one* expansionary species. Species's psychologies will not be so uniform that any anthropomorphic social problem could get them *all*. The giant bugs with a hive queen didn't get caught up in virtual reality, so where are *they*?
My new video about the Fermi Paradox: do most alien species go extinct because they get caught up in runaway consumerism, virtual reality, and fake forms of biological fitness? Do alien video games make them forget to have kids?https://youtu.be/T1NKM3MXSm0
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Maybe it's my failure of imagination, but I doubt the giant bugs could invent interstellar travel without inventing fitness-faking technologies first.
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My bet is that evolutionary theory is relevant everywhere that life evolves, regardless of its form.... that's the crux of the point in the video about 'fake fitness'...
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Good point.
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Perhaps the alien super-parents are out there, but as sensible folks, they anticipate the demoralizing effects of making their presence known - why would humans strive if everything they could achieve already existed? So their apparent absence is a curtain, intentionally drawn.
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Maybe. But some folks might be more inspired by knowing cosmic success is possible, and demoralized by the vast silence...
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We are probably anthropomorphizing aliens way too much to even suppose they will have anything like video games or consumerism. Just think about how weird octopuses are, and they are related to us! Aliens are going to be weirder than we can imagine.
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The simplest explanation is that space is just really, really big.
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