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  • Commented on On the Great Filter, existential threats, and griefers
    I wonder if the cluster of GRB's has anything to do with this recent discovery: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/04/150424085003.htm Giant cosmic tsunami wakes up comatose galaxies...
  • Commented on On the Great Filter, existential threats, and griefers
    One other thought - assuming technologically advanced civilizations fairly early on attain the ability to spot any other civilizations that are highly advanced, what impact does one civilization seeing (if not directly communicating) with that civilization have on it? For...
  • Commented on On the Great Filter, existential threats, and griefers
    I'm not sure whether its been mentioned already, but the following article from three days ago http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/04/150414101000.htm This shows that there is no excess infra-red radiation in the 100,000 galaxies searched. In short there is no excess energy expenditure corresponding...
  • Commented on On the Great Filter, existential threats, and griefers
    Maybe aliens all end up fantastically wealthy and technologically advanced, with all work done by robots. The endgame might look something like Asimov's Solarians - solitary aliens living on vast estates with robot servants. They have little to do with...
  • Commented on On the Great Filter, existential threats, and griefers
    Another thought: the griefers are only interested in those that can do interstellar travel; but by our very nature we're not and never will be because we're the filter. We were in fact designed to keep other species in our...
  • Commented on On the Great Filter, existential threats, and griefers
    I think you fundamentally misunderstand the Fermi paradox. It's not necessary for all advanced civilizations to engage in interstellar travel; it's only necessary that not all of them abstain from it. Because all it takes is one, and exponentiation does...
  • Commented on On the Great Filter, existential threats, and griefers
    The problem with the idea of griefers is, what stops them from being confined to a single galaxy? And what happens when one intergalactic griefer detects another griefer? Methinks really nasty civilizations like that have a short shelf life, which...
  • Commented on On the Great Filter, existential threats, and griefers
    I think the problem is, people assume advanced civilizations engage in interstellar travel. But there's little reason to assume that, if you look at the progress of our own technology. We've advanced far, far more rapidly technologically down on the...
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