Robin Hanson: Something Out There Is Killing Everything

Robin Hanson says "and you're next". Robin offers a pretty interesting take on the Drake Equation. Since everything we can see looks dead it really is very dead out there. An intelligent civilization that grew very large and technologically advanced would create artifacts on such a scale that we could spot it. So why don't we see any? Robin asks a very interesting question: have we already gotten past all great filters that are preventing large scale space colonization. Is there a great filter ahead of us? Or have many civilizations gotten as far as us and got filtered out at later steps? Granted, some large number of intelligent civilizations might be at an earlier stage of development, even earlier...

Source: FuturePundit - December 16, 2014 Category: Research Authors: Randall Parker Source Type: blogs