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The Dark Forest, Aliens, And A Hostile Galaxy (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

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The Importance of Logic in the Evolution of Science and Technology

In the notion that they'd be afraid of being spotted doing that and be seen by others doesn't work, because it's assuming you can't hide some system of tight-being relays with orders to self-destructive capture or damage. It also takes a huge jump in logic to assume everybody is going to do this, even if it turned out to mathematically make sense, which again, it does not. They would be asking how they could murder the galaxy and make sure they missed no vengeful survivors,. And they would have the same math and science we have, or presumably better, making it even easier to spot exoplanets with signs of life and send a probe of

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