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Animated Explanation of the Fermi Paradox
Posted on 5/7/15 at 8:49 pm
Posted on 5/7/15 at 8:49 pm
Posted on 5/7/15 at 8:57 pm to boxcarbarney
The correct answer is that people are out there, but the people with the technology to visit us from vast distances are dead.
Why?
Because it is almost a given that by the time a species is advanced enough to have extensive and near perfect space travel, it is also advanced enough to have elite and advanced AIs. So advanced that those AIs destroy the civilization before it can visit us.
Why?
Because it is almost a given that by the time a species is advanced enough to have extensive and near perfect space travel, it is also advanced enough to have elite and advanced AIs. So advanced that those AIs destroy the civilization before it can visit us.
Posted on 5/7/15 at 9:05 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Yet the AI also doesn't visit, even though they were badass enough to frick the super intelligent race up.
The whole fear of artificial intelligence is fricking retarded if you ask me. The smartest person in he world can't intelligent me away from my wallet r my gun, if I had one.
The whole fear of artificial intelligence is fricking retarded if you ask me. The smartest person in he world can't intelligent me away from my wallet r my gun, if I had one.
This post was edited on 5/7/15 at 9:06 pm
Posted on 5/7/15 at 9:08 pm to baybeefeetz
That was good for the LIV types, but waitbutwhy's explanation is so much more thorough and still easy to understand.
Posted on 5/7/15 at 9:32 pm to boxcarbarney
Great video.
The Fermi Paradox fascinates me.
The Fermi Paradox fascinates me.
Posted on 5/7/15 at 9:34 pm to boxcarbarney
I've read about the Fermi Paradox but 40 years (or whatever) seems awfully early to assume anything.
Posted on 5/7/15 at 9:34 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Great post. Don't know why it's getting downvoted.
Posted on 5/7/15 at 9:53 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
That's pretty presumptuous. Why wouldn't the AIs have also conquered the known galaxy then? With pretty pedestrian speeds it would only take a few million yrs to colonize the entire Milky Way (compared to the 13 billion yr age of the universe), so why hasn't the all powerful AI shown up here yet?
Posted on 5/7/15 at 9:56 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
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almost a given that by the time a species is advanced enough to have extensive and near perfect space travel, it is also advanced enough to have elite and advanced AIs
Come on you have literally no evidence to base this statement on. "Strong" AI is a joke right now, we haven't even shown it to be theoretically possible.
Posted on 5/7/15 at 9:58 pm to northshorebamaman
quote:Yeah. I think as far as paradoxes go, Fermi's Paradox is awfully overrated--the paradox part at least. As far as we've come, we still know very little about the things we've experienced, let alone worlds beyond. Therefore the "paradox" is a paradox based on assumptions and limited knowledge of the parameters to fomulate the paradox.
I've read about the Fermi Paradox but 40 years (or whatever) seems awfully early to assume anything.
This post was edited on 5/7/15 at 10:12 pm
Posted on 5/7/15 at 9:59 pm to boxcarbarney
the Fermi Paradox is horseshite
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