The Dark Forest, Aliens, And A Hostile Galaxy (Narration Only)
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
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The Drake Equation and the Cost of Interstellar Travel
We could not have detected extraterrestrial radio traffic nor would any intelligent aliens have ever settled on Earth because our work killed shortly after discovering radio. To quote David Brin's 1983 paper The Great Silence, there is no need to struggle to suppress the elements of the Drake equation in order to explain the Great Silence. We shouldn't just take as a given that someone is going to be smart enough to make AI and yet stupidly and blindly miss some red flag," he says.
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