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My current thoughts on the risks from SETI
Matthew Barnett
9mo
25
86
Replicating and extending the grabby aliens model
Tristan Cook
8mo
22
82
Why it took so long to do the Fermi calculation right?
Jan_Kulveit
4y
20
67
How confident are we that there are no Extremely Obvious Aliens?
Logan Zoellner
7mo
25
62
Robin Hanson's Grabby Aliens model explained - part 1
Writer
1y
34
55
Could a single alien message destroy us?
Writer
25d
23
45
The Fermi Paradox: What did Sandberg, Drexler and Ord Really Dissolve?
shminux
4y
28
42
UFAI cannot be the Great Filter
Thrasymachus
10y
92
41
Is Grabby Aliens built on good anthropic reasoning?
Steven Byrnes
9mo
29
31
How inevitable was modern human civilization - data
taw
13y
104
31
Dissolving the Fermi Paradox, and what reflection it provides
Jan_Kulveit
4y
22
29
SETI Predictions
hippke
2y
8
28
The Fermi Paradox has not been dissolved - James Fodor
mako yass
2y
4
24
Astrobiology, Astronomy, and the Fermi Paradox II: Space & Time Revisited
CellBioGuy
6y
35
170
The AI in a box boxes you
Stuart_Armstrong
12y
390
64
Simulated Elon Musk Lives in a Simulation
lsusr
1y
9
42
On alien science
Richard_Ngo
3y
8
40
The Aliens have Landed!
TimFreeman
11y
158
35
Negotiating Up and Down the Simulation Hierarchy: Why We Might Survive the Unaligned Singularity
David Udell
7mo
16
32
Simulation arguments
Joe Carlsmith
10mo
16
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
28
Holy Grails of Chemistry
chemslug
2y
2
24
What would convince you you'd won the lottery?
Stuart_Armstrong
5y
11
23
Great-Filter Hard-Step Math, Explained Intuitively
Daniel_Eth
1y
7
23
Weird question: could we see distant aliens?
paulfchristiano
4y
78
21
[Link] Does a Simulation Really Need to Be Run?
VincentYu
11y
17
19
The Simulation Epiphany Problem
Koen.Holtman
3y
13
18
Risks of downloading alien AI via SETI search
turchin
9y
99