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

[Adrian Tymes]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2025, 6:23 AM BillK via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> 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.
>

The Dark Forest hypothesis, aa that is known, has been generally debunked.
Any such hostile aliens would have been triggered and summoned by our
earliest broadcasts, before humanity contemplated the possibility of hiding
our radios.  It'd be the same for anyone else out there.

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