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My current thoughts on the risks from SETI
Matthew Barnett
9mo
25
75
Why it took so long to do the Fermi calculation right?
Jan_Kulveit
4y
20
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Robin Hanson's Grabby Aliens model explained - part 1
Writer
1y
34
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Replicating and extending the grabby aliens model
Tristan Cook
8mo
22
59
UFAI cannot be the Great Filter
Thrasymachus
10y
92
59
Could a single alien message destroy us?
Writer
25d
23
56
How confident are we that there are no Extremely Obvious Aliens?
Logan Zoellner
7mo
25
45
The Fermi Paradox: What did Sandberg, Drexler and Ord Really Dissolve?
shminux
4y
28
35
Astrobiology, Astronomy, and the Fermi Paradox II: Space & Time Revisited
CellBioGuy
6y
35
35
Is Grabby Aliens built on good anthropic reasoning?
Steven Byrnes
9mo
29
32
How inevitable was modern human civilization - data
taw
13y
104
32
The Great Filter is early, or AI is hard
Stuart_Armstrong
8y
76
30
The Fermi Paradox has not been dissolved - James Fodor
mako yass
2y
4
27
Dissolving the Fermi Paradox, and what reflection it provides
Jan_Kulveit
4y
22
160
The AI in a box boxes you
Stuart_Armstrong
12y
390
66
Simulated Elon Musk Lives in a Simulation
lsusr
1y
9
46
The Aliens have Landed!
TimFreeman
11y
158
44
Simulation arguments
Joe Carlsmith
10mo
16
44
On alien science
Richard_Ngo
3y
8
34
Holy Grails of Chemistry
chemslug
2y
2
31
Weird question: could we see distant aliens?
paulfchristiano
4y
78
28
What would convince you you'd won the lottery?
Stuart_Armstrong
5y
11
28
[Link] Does a Simulation Really Need to Be Run?
VincentYu
11y
17
26
Great-Filter Hard-Step Math, Explained Intuitively
Daniel_Eth
1y
7
24
Negotiating Up and Down the Simulation Hierarchy: Why We Might Survive the Unaligned Singularity
David Udell
7mo
16
23
Are you in a Boltzmann simulation?
Stuart_Armstrong
4y
29
18
Alien neuropunk slaver civilizations
D_Malik
7y
18
17
Risks of downloading alien AI via SETI search
turchin
9y
99