Maybe the answer to the Fermi paradox is somehow "the singularity". As an intelligent species arises, the amount of time between the emergence of intelligence

Maybe the answer to the Fermi paradox is somehow "the singularity". As an intelligent species arises, the amount of time between the emergence of intelligence and a singularity that utterly transforms it into something we would never detect is a blink of the eye geologically. So quickly that it's as if they don't exist to each other.