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Even if humanity decides to live in the metaverse or something instead of spreading out further (which I doubt), someone somewhere is going to decide to make a
by sebzim4500 3y ago
Even if humanity decides to live in the metaverse or something instead of spreading out further (which I doubt), someone somewhere is going to decide to make a Von Neumann probe eventually.
IMO the only solutions to the paradox are either that intelligent life is really, really rare or civilizations wipe themselves out in some kind of filtering event.
- Vox_Leone 3y agoIt is a little sad to think that we may have only one shot to the stars. The way we have squandered our resources makes it very difficult to bootstrap again in the future, case we choose the wrong way now. The next few years are going to be interesting indeed [remember that 'may you live interesting times' is a curse].
- m4rtink 3y agoNot to mention proper virtual worlds with all the best effects, depth and fidelity and realism still need to run on something. In essence you are running an utopia in emulation, possibly requiring more real world resources to essentially simulate another world on top of yours. So the people might live in a disconnected digital paradise, but their automated servants might cross the void at relativistic speeds to harvest any and all matter and energy not bolted down, to upgrade the paradise of their masters.
- taneq 3y agoMaybe space is just so big that, even if there’s plenty of intelligent life inside our light cone, it’s still all far enough away that we can’t detect it (yet).
- m4rtink 3y agoI think it is just a matter of time till we detect some large enough megascale engineering projects, even with current detection technology. Or even find out that some weird natural phenomenons might be actually results of such engineering endeavors.