[ExI] [Extropolis] Fermi paradox

[BillK]

On Mon, 10 May 2021 at 21:03, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> Human beings are not entirely peaceful.  Lawrence
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> Thanks for that - biggest laugh of the week.  In my fungus book I read where traditional agriculture leaves fields nearly sterile of fungi and many other creatures .  Too many assets that fungi bring to raising crops to list here, but people are working on it.  I am highly encouraged - more later.  bill w
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> On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 12:42 PM Lawrence Crowell <goldenfieldquaternions at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> It might be that George Carlin’s “big electron” or this sort of self-excited cosmology are real. It though does not seem as likely intelligent life develops in most science fiction paths as star faring beings. If this happens for even a significant fraction of them, we would probably know it.  I suspect intelligent life in the vast majority of cases develops an environment they are not really evolved for and then snuffs themselves out.
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That's one of the big questions generated by the Fermi Paradox silence.
Is the Great Filter behind us or still waiting to hit us in the future?
The rarity of life developing could be the big early Filter.
Intelligent life destroying itself because the Evolution necessary for
development leads to destruction could be the late Filter.


BillK