[ExI] The Great Silence again

Ben Zaiboc bbenzai at yahoo.com
Tue Apr 26 09:50:45 UTC 2011


BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:

"I think I've mentioned in the past that The Fermi problem is probably
because advanced civs don't go out into space.
For many possible reasons, including those mentioned by Michael above.

Sometimes called the retreat into virtual worlds of computronium."


Possibly more relevant is the concept that the less notice you take of the 'real world', the more likely it is to eventually destroy you.

Ben Zaiboc




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