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One thing we can still be very confident about: if there is other life out there, it's not significantly any more intelligent than we are. (See Robin Hanson's G
by Jach 14y ago
One thing we can still be very confident about: if there is other life out there, it's not significantly any more intelligent than we are. (See Robin Hanson's Great Filter argument: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fhanson.gmu.edu%2Fgreatfilter.html http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%...)
- lifeisstillgood 14y agoMaybe I missed it but may I suggest one extra filter to be applied - once a civilisation reaches a level of technological sophistication, it finds the base code for the matrix, works out how to dial out and leaves, going up to the pan-galactic teenagers bedroom we are running in. Thus the answer to Drake and the filter question is no one is around because there is an exit to a more interesting universe.