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"Not everybody needs to build stuff or achieve things IRL. And that's perfectly fine." Probably the answer to the Fermi Paradox.
by fasteddie31003 6y ago
"Not everybody needs to build stuff or achieve things IRL. And that's perfectly fine." Probably the answer to the Fermi Paradox.
- thewakalix 6y agoI disagree. There's an asymmetry -- you only need one expansionist civilization to disturb the pristine universe that we observe, no matter how many civilizations are content with staying home and remaining quiet. (Relevant: the unilateralist's curse, https://nickbostrom.com/papers/unilateralist.pdf https://nickbostrom.com/papers/unilateralist.pdf.)
- Scarblac 6y agoFirst, expansionism needs to be possible. Chemical rockets combined with large biological life forms seem to rule out interstellar colonization.