The Future of Intelligent Life

I think the vast majority of people have an amazing ability to not care about things that affect them directly. And I agree with you that I can foresee a scenario where intelligent life is greeted with a meh, its discovery. It's because it's incremental. So my gut feeling is there should be life everywhere, but the Fermi Paradox is of course like, why haven't we actually contacted anybody? Yeah. The fact that we are at a point in our technology where we can conceivably receive messages and we can send messages over great, great distances and we have gotten nothing back is one of the most concerning things to think about when you start thinking about it seriously.