[ExI] Why Alien Life Would be our Doom - The Great Filter

[Edward Haigh]

When civilisations meet they're rarely peaceful encounters.

If we ever collide with an alien race capable of interstellar space travel,
my money won't be on trading technologies and textbooks but a rather swift
end for us.

- Edd

On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 1:31 PM, William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> tara wrote -  Another reason that we should seek out collision with
> aliens, even if it is difficult, to start trading technology and learning
> as fast as we can.
>
> Yeah - given our warlike nature, collision is far more likely than
> collusion
>
> bill w
>
> On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 1:06 PM, Tara Maya <tara at taramayastales.com> wrote:
>
>> An analogy from history could be the interesting fact that human
>> civilizations around the globe discovered agriculture near-simulteneously
>> (especially in relation to the age of the species over-all) and so expanded
>> out from several points at once. Although this still resulted in some
>> civilizations that were more advanced more quickly (mostly those that
>> collided with each first, and so were able to start stacking innovations
>> faster), the difference was not that huge.
>>
>> There could be several other life civilizations all arising to the space
>> faring level about the same time. The question is which will collide
>> fastest and gain the early adopter advantage? Another reason that we should
>> seek out collision with aliens, even if it is difficult, to start trading
>> technology and learning as fast as we can.
>>
>> Tara
>>
>>
>> > On Feb 4, 2018, at 8:09 PM, Adrian Tymes <atymes at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Except there's another couple interpretations:
>> >
>> > * We are indeed the first, however mathematically likely if you make
>> > certain assumptions that are not necessarily warranted.  (They kind of
>> > alluded to this in the "filter is behind us" bit, but this is not
>> > quite that scenario.)
>>
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