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Uncompelling, by nature of the Fermi Paradox, this requires that 100% of civilisations take the option to live in virtual worlds.
by automatic6131 4y ago
Uncompelling, by nature of the Fermi Paradox, this requires that 100% of civilisations take the option to live in virtual worlds.
- pavlov 4y agoMore precisely, 100% of civilizations that survive would take this option. Maybe there's a reason why everybody else ends up killing themselves.
- YurgenJurgensen 4y agoIt's even further than this: That 100% of all members or sub-factions of 100% of civilisations choose to do this (or that 100% of civilisations force all their members to do so even if they don't want it, and that that scenario doesn't escalate into a war that decimates a million worlds and all-but exhausts the resources of a galaxy). If you have the technology for civilisation-scale virtual worlds, you have the technology for von-Neumann probes, and it only takes one to start an expanding sphere of space colonialism.
- Protostome 4y agoThat's true, but: 1. From a technological standpoint (although this is just from one data point) the concept of living in virtual generated worlds would come eons before a civilization would be capable of interstellar travel. We vastly underestimate the engineering challenges of sending a human safely across light years of space. 2. Interstellar colonization doesn't require a civilization. Bacteria-like creatures can "travel" on pieces of meteors and colonize all the galaxy, this is a much more plausible scenario, given the nature of interstellar travel, and one that is relatively easy to find supporting evidence for. Therefore, I would expect us to find that those kind of examples vastly outnumber civilization based colonies.