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Could a single alien message destroy us?
Writer
25d
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My current thoughts on the risks from SETI
Matthew Barnett
9mo
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Replicating and extending the grabby aliens model
Tristan Cook
8mo
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45
How confident are we that there are no Extremely Obvious Aliens?
Logan Zoellner
7mo
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Robin Hanson's Grabby Aliens model explained - part 1
Writer
1y
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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
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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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29
Is Grabby Aliens built on good anthropic reasoning?
Steven Byrnes
9mo
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Robin Hanson's "Humans are Early"
Raemon
1y
0
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The Fermi Paradox has not been dissolved - James Fodor
mako yass
2y
4
68
Why it took so long to do the Fermi calculation right?
Jan_Kulveit
4y
20
45
The Fermi Paradox: What did Sandberg, Drexler and Ord Really Dissolve?
shminux
4y
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SETI Predictions
hippke
2y
8
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UFAI cannot be the Great Filter
Thrasymachus
10y
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some simulation hypotheses
carado
2mo
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Simulation arguments
Joe Carlsmith
10mo
16
68
Simulated Elon Musk Lives in a Simulation
lsusr
1y
9
29
Great-Filter Hard-Step Math, Explained Intuitively
Daniel_Eth
1y
7
13
Negotiating Up and Down the Simulation Hierarchy: Why We Might Survive the Unaligned Singularity
David Udell
7mo
16
40
Holy Grails of Chemistry
chemslug
2y
2
6
Security analysis of 'cloud chemistry labs'?
Kenny
6mo
2
46
On alien science
Richard_Ngo
3y
8
15
Anthropics and Fermi: grabby, visible, zoo-keeping, and early aliens
Stuart_Armstrong
1y
1
14
What is the best chemistry textbook?
Maxwell Peterson
1y
8
150
The AI in a box boxes you
Stuart_Armstrong
12y
390
15
Grabby aliens and Zoo hypothesis
avturchin
1y
5
39
Weird question: could we see distant aliens?
paulfchristiano
4y
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Are you in a Boltzmann simulation?
Stuart_Armstrong
4y
29