re: Do you believe in the Fermi Paradox: The Great Filter?

Except, our broadcast have hardly covered any space even in just our own galaxy

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The Great Filter is scary. What's frightening is the Dark Forest theory:

-All life desires to stay alive.
-There is no way to know if other lifeforms can or will destroy you if given a chance.
-Lacking assurances, the safest option for any species is to annihilate other life forms before they have a chance to do the same.

Basically eliminate all life you discover before it can eliminate you. And we've been broadcasting our location for decades.

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Dark forest theory is already discredited. There are numerous examples of symbiosis in nature. In fact evolution trends to niche specialization and utilization of resources in ways that avoid competition.

I am unaware of any species that specialize or even generally use a tactic of annihilating other species as self defense. This seems extremely unlikely as this strategy seems to maximize potential conflict, which makes 0 sense from a logical or evolutionary standpoint.

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What's frightening is the Dark Forest theory:

-All life desires to stay alive.
-There is no way to know if other lifeforms can or will destroy you if given a chance.
-Lacking assurances, the safest option for any species is to annihilate other life forms before they have a chance to do the same.

Basically eliminate all life you discover before it can eliminate you. And we've been broadcasting our location for decades.

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Ehhh im not buying it. Space is just incredibly vast and tracking inferior species down would be a massive waste of resources