[ExI] ETs/Aliens

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On Wed, 21 Aug 2024, Keith Henson via extropy-chat wrote:

> https://arxiv.org › abs › 1806.02404
>
> [1806.02404] Dissolving the Fermi Paradox - arXiv.org
>
> Anders Sandberg, Eric Drexler, Toby Ord. View a PDF of the paper
> titled Dissolving the Fermi Paradox, by Anders Sandberg and 1 other
> authors. The Fermi paradox is the conflict between an expectation of a
> high {\em ex ante} probability of intelligent life elsewhere in the
> universe and the apparently lifeless universe we in fact observe.
>
> Dissolving the Fermi Paradox
>
> ^^^^^
>
> The above paper gives low odds of there being another technological
> civilization in our galaxy.  I found the paper reasonable and
> accounting for what we see out there.  More or less considered it a
> closed issue.
>
> The paper came out about the same time that the odd behavior of
> Tabby's Star was discovered.
>
> I was in the camp of it must be natural.  However when they found a
> number of other stars in a cluster around Tabby's Star, it seems to me
> to be evidence of life spreading from star to star.
>
> Simple analysis of the shadow patterns leads to an object at 7.8 AU
> and over 400 times the area of the Earth.  This is not in the
> habitable zone, but it does seem to be in the computational zone.
> Could we be looking at the shadows of giant data centers holding
> trillions of uploaded aliens?  Off planet giant data centers may be in
> our future so perhaps that's what happened at Tabby's star and the
> other ones that blink.
>
> Good reason to keep you cryonics contract active if you want to know
> how this story turns out.
>
> Keith
>

Well read people know that the solution is of course the crystal spheres. 
Only possible to break from within, impossible to break from the outside.