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Yes, but a civilization collapsing doesn’t kill off an entire species nor (usually) wipe out knowledge completely. Thus it wouldn’t be a great filter. However,
by withinboredom 1y ago
Yes, but a civilization collapsing doesn’t kill off an entire species nor (usually) wipe out knowledge completely. Thus it wouldn’t be a great filter. However, perhaps it is pretty common to create a grey goo, or nuke yourself, or whatever. That would be a life ending event.
- pantalaimon 1y agoIt's still about what we are able to observe. If there is a bronze age civilization in the vicinity of betelgeuse, how would we tell? You'd need a civilization advanced enough to do radio communication - and that has a lot of fragile interdependencies.