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Great Filter
Grabby Aliens
SETI
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Simulation Hypothesis
Extraterrestrial Life
Chemistry
Mind Crime
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Could a single alien message destroy us?
Writer
25d
23
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My current thoughts on the risks from SETI
Matthew Barnett
9mo
25
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Replicating and extending the grabby aliens model
Tristan Cook
8mo
22
67
How confident are we that there are no Extremely Obvious Aliens?
Logan Zoellner
7mo
25
41
Is Grabby Aliens built on good anthropic reasoning?
Steven Byrnes
9mo
29
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Robin Hanson's Grabby Aliens model explained - part 1
Writer
1y
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Grabby Animals: Observation-selection effects favor the hypothesis that UAP are animals which consist of the “field-matter”:
avturchin
6mo
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16
I just watched the Open C3 Subcommittee Hearing on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UFOs). Here's a succinct summary and commentary + some background
mako yass
7mo
19
82
Why it took so long to do the Fermi calculation right?
Jan_Kulveit
4y
20
29
SETI Predictions
hippke
2y
8
28
The Fermi Paradox has not been dissolved - James Fodor
mako yass
2y
4
45
The Fermi Paradox: What did Sandberg, Drexler and Ord Really Dissolve?
shminux
4y
28
6
Robin Hanson's "Humans are Early"
Raemon
1y
0
31
Dissolving the Fermi Paradox, and what reflection it provides
Jan_Kulveit
4y
22
14
some simulation hypotheses
carado
2mo
3
35
Negotiating Up and Down the Simulation Hierarchy: Why We Might Survive the Unaligned Singularity
David Udell
7mo
16
64
Simulated Elon Musk Lives in a Simulation
lsusr
1y
9
31
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
32
Simulation arguments
Joe Carlsmith
10mo
16
7
Could the simulation argument also apply to dreams?
Nathan1123
4mo
3
23
Great-Filter Hard-Step Math, Explained Intuitively
Daniel_Eth
1y
7
6
Security analysis of 'cloud chemistry labs'?
Kenny
6mo
2
28
Holy Grails of Chemistry
chemslug
2y
2
42
On alien science
Richard_Ngo
3y
8
170
The AI in a box boxes you
Stuart_Armstrong
12y
390
13
Anthropics and Fermi: grabby, visible, zoo-keeping, and early aliens
Stuart_Armstrong
1y
1
10
What is the best chemistry textbook?
Maxwell Peterson
1y
8
19
The Simulation Epiphany Problem
Koen.Holtman
3y
13