I don’t see why you need to posit exotic scenarios when the mundane will do.
Neither do I, hence my current low credence in a Great Filter and my currently high credence for, “We’re just far from the mean; sometimes that does happen, especially in distributions with high variance, and we don’t know the variance right now.”
Well I agree with you on all of that. How is it non-causal?
Or have I misunderstood and you only object to the “aliens had FOOM AI go wrong” explanations but have no trouble with the “earth is just weird” explanation?
It isn’t. The people who affirmatively believe in the Great Filter being a real thing rather than part of their ignorance are, in my view, the ones who believe in a noncausal model.
Neither do I, hence my current low credence in a Great Filter and my currently high credence for, “We’re just far from the mean; sometimes that does happen, especially in distributions with high variance, and we don’t know the variance right now.”
Well I agree with you on all of that. How is it non-causal?
Or have I misunderstood and you only object to the “aliens had FOOM AI go wrong” explanations but have no trouble with the “earth is just weird” explanation?
It isn’t. The people who affirmatively believe in the Great Filter being a real thing rather than part of their ignorance are, in my view, the ones who believe in a noncausal model.