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All language is going to be governed by information theory though, so I would think that if we have trouble detecting language then either a) we’re not looking

All language is going to be governed by information theory though, so I would think that if we have trouble detecting language then either a) we’re not looking very hard, or b) the comms are so efficient it’s approaching indistinguishable from white noise. Later category seems unlikely with animals, but I could see it being the case for hive minds leveraging emergent properties of simple behaviors like in bee dancing or ant pheromones

thih9 2y ago
Maybe even both a&b can happen at once. The article also mentions Fermi’s paradox and “the great filter”, a proposed solution. There are more[1], notably: “our search methodologies are flawed and we are not searching for the correct indicators”. [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_for_extraterrestrial_intelligence https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_for_extraterrestrial_...