Rich Felker
@trochee @emma The whole Fermi paradox is just such utter bullshit.
There is a simple answer: space is fucking enormous, relativity completely precludes any kind of interstellar civilization (via precluding bidirectional causal relationships necessary to be a civilization), and any species sufficiently intelligent to achieve space travel will understand this.
Rich Felker
@trochee @emma The delusion that you can eventually overcome relativity with sufficient tech is just a different form of the delusion that you can perpetually sustain exponential growth and they're both fundamentally capitalist delusions that serve capitalist ends.
Jeremy Kahn
Like so much else in the TESCREAL crowd, they cannot imagine that aliens/transcended minds would not be venal and petty and extractive like they are
Their projection and short-sighted view means they are firmly planted in the Defect corner of the Prisoner's Dilemma
…they don't know it's iterated
…they can't imagine anything smarter than themselves
…therefore any super-intelligence must be rapacious imperialists like they are
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