[ExI] Reinventing SETI: Why Our Alien-Hunting Playbook Needs an Upgrade

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Reinventing SETI: Why Our Alien-Hunting Playbook Needs an Upgrade

In this excerpt from his new book, John Gertz argues it’s time to
ditch SETI’s old dogmas and rethink how we prepare for first contact.
John Gertz      Published September 27, 2025

<https://gizmodo.com/reinventing-seti-why-our-alien-hunting-playbook-needs-an-upgrade-2000662243>
Quote:
The very fact that the universe is so silent and ET is not obvious may
support an argument for pessimism. Perhaps benign alien civilizations
are in the majority, but they know something that newbies such as
ourselves do not, namely, that the universe is a very dangerous place,
and there are some really bad actors out there. They therefore
intentionally keep quiet and low profiles, lest they provoke the bad
actors.
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But as he says, lack of evidence is exactly that. At present, we don't
have a clue about ET's existence.

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