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Someone said that's the solution to Fermi's paradox - every sufficiently advanced civilization eventually spends all its resources on cryptocurrency mining :)
by pakitan 9y ago
Someone said that's the solution to Fermi's paradox - every sufficiently advanced civilization eventually spends all its resources on cryptocurrency mining :)
- jorvi 9y agoFunny, but it actually contains a sliver of truth. There is a theory called ‘The Great filter’ that tries to explain the Fermi paradox. It basically posits there is some almost insurmountable barrier that must be vaulted for a species to become spacefaring. Whether that barrier is behind us (the evolution of intelligent life) or ahead of us (no idea what, avoiding interplanetary warfare possibly?) has not been conclusively theorized.
- DonHopkins 9y agoThe Quintans in Stanislaw Lem's novel "Fiasco" were too busy mining cryptocurrency to make contact and communicate with. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiasco_(novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiasco_(novel)
- digi_owl 9y agoOr maybe generalize it to frivolous computing.