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Grabby Aliens
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Could a single alien message destroy us?
Writer
25d
23
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Robin Hanson's Grabby Aliens model explained - part 1
Writer
1y
34
50
Replicating and extending the grabby aliens model
Tristan Cook
8mo
22
-1
Implications of the Grabby Aliens Model
harsimony
1y
3
33
How inevitable was modern human civilization - data
taw
13y
104
44
The Great Filter is early, or AI is hard
Stuart_Armstrong
8y
76
46
Astrobiology, Astronomy, and the Fermi Paradox II: Space & Time Revisited
CellBioGuy
6y
35
76
UFAI cannot be the Great Filter
Thrasymachus
10y
92
23
Late Great Filter Is Not Bad News
Wei_Dai
12y
82
23
Dissolving the Fermi Paradox, and what reflection it provides
Jan_Kulveit
4y
22
99
My current thoughts on the risks from SETI
Matthew Barnett
9mo
25
45
The Fermi Paradox: What did Sandberg, Drexler and Ord Really Dissolve?
shminux
4y
28
20
Planets in the habitable zone, the Drake Equation, and the Great Filter
JoshuaZ
11y
64
22
Grabby Animals: Observation-selection effects favor the hypothesis that UAP are animals which consist of the “field-matter”:
avturchin
6mo
15
12
some simulation hypotheses
carado
2mo
3
56
Simulation arguments
Joe Carlsmith
10mo
16
1
Could the simulation argument also apply to dreams?
Nathan1123
4mo
3
-11
Physicalism implies experience never dies. So what am I going to experience after it does?
Szymon Kucharski
1y
1
15
Grabby aliens and Zoo hypothesis
avturchin
1y
5
5
Simon Conway Morris: "Aliens are likely to look and behave like us".
Roko
12y
40
32
What would convince you you'd won the lottery?
Stuart_Armstrong
5y
11
21
Superintelligence 12: Malignant failure modes
KatjaGrace
8y
51
15
[link] On the abundance of extraterrestrial life after the Kepler mission
Gunnar_Zarncke
8y
25
1
Jeff Shainline thinks that there is too much serendipity in the physics of optical/superconducting computing, suggesting that they were part of the criteria of Cosmological Natural Selection, which could have some fairly lovecraftian implications
mako yass
8mo
3
40
Holy Grails of Chemistry
chemslug
2y
2
3
Annihilating aliens & Rare Earth suggest early filter
rk
4y
10
52
The Aliens have Landed!
TimFreeman
11y
158
6
Security analysis of 'cloud chemistry labs'?
Kenny
6mo
2