Hart's paper attempts to cover the idea of "sociological" phenomena like this. I think from an evolutionary biology standpoint, it seems dubious that such a th

Hart's paper attempts to cover the idea of "sociological" phenomena like this. I think from an evolutionary biology standpoint, it seems dubious that such a thing could evolve -- even considering a software solution, software that more rapidly propagates will be more common then software that does not. They might not want to talk to us, but members of that species that actively convert planets into computational substrates would be the more common variants just because on these kinds of timescales they would not have competition.