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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
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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
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56
How confident are we that there are no Extremely Obvious Aliens?
Logan Zoellner
7mo
25
72
Robin Hanson's Grabby Aliens model explained - part 1
Writer
1y
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35
Is Grabby Aliens built on good anthropic reasoning?
Steven Byrnes
9mo
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23
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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19
Grabby Animals: Observation-selection effects favor the hypothesis that UAP are animals which consist of the “field-matter”:
avturchin
6mo
15
75
Why it took so long to do the Fermi calculation right?
Jan_Kulveit
4y
20
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The Fermi Paradox has not been dissolved - James Fodor
mako yass
2y
4
11
Robin Hanson's "Humans are Early"
Raemon
1y
0
23
SETI Predictions
hippke
2y
8
45
The Fermi Paradox: What did Sandberg, Drexler and Ord Really Dissolve?
shminux
4y
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27
Dissolving the Fermi Paradox, and what reflection it provides
Jan_Kulveit
4y
22
13
some simulation hypotheses
carado
2mo
3
44
Simulation arguments
Joe Carlsmith
10mo
16
66
Simulated Elon Musk Lives in a Simulation
lsusr
1y
9
24
Negotiating Up and Down the Simulation Hierarchy: Why We Might Survive the Unaligned Singularity
David Udell
7mo
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16
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
26
Great-Filter Hard-Step Math, Explained Intuitively
Daniel_Eth
1y
7
4
Could the simulation argument also apply to dreams?
Nathan1123
4mo
3
34
Holy Grails of Chemistry
chemslug
2y
2
6
Security analysis of 'cloud chemistry labs'?
Kenny
6mo
2
44
On alien science
Richard_Ngo
3y
8
14
Anthropics and Fermi: grabby, visible, zoo-keeping, and early aliens
Stuart_Armstrong
1y
1
160
The AI in a box boxes you
Stuart_Armstrong
12y
390
12
What is the best chemistry textbook?
Maxwell Peterson
1y
8
12
Grabby aliens and Zoo hypothesis
avturchin
1y
5