Maybe interstellar travel is really, really hard—no matter what your level of technology.
Maybe 99% of the habitable planets in the galaxy have been sterilized by unfriendly AI and we owe our current existence to the anthropomorphic principle.
Maybe highly rational entities decide large-scale interstellar travel is suboptimal.
Maybe 99% of the habitable planets in the galaxy have been sterilized by unfriendly AI and we owe our current existence to the anthropomorphic principle.
Anthropic.
DEATH) owes his existence to the anthropomorphic principle.
Maybe highly rational entities decide large-scale interstellar travel is suboptimal.
I think this is an under considered explaination. Once you get more than 10 light years away ( and maybe much sooner than that) coordination is hard. You can’t send messages back and forth quickly, you can’t synchronize views and conclusions quickly etc.
Maybe the Agi or civilization or whatnot thinks of starting a colony, realizes that after it does so there will be 2 civilizations or 2 AIs and decides that the increase in the odds of conflict after going from 1 to 2 don’t justify the benefits.
Maybe 99% of the habitable planets in the galaxy have been sterilized by unfriendly AI and we owe our current existence to the anthropomorphic principle.
Or maybe the Planck mass changes over time, as suggested by Chrisof Wetterich recently and only recently reached a level where life or intelligence suddenly became possible everywhere in the galaxy?
That cannot presently be known, although it’s fun to speculate. But I think it helps us more if we can eliminate real-seeming possibilities.
Or maybe the Planck mass changes over time, as suggested by Chrisof Wetterich recently and only recently reached a level where life or intelligence suddenly became possible everywhere in the galaxy?
I don’t think this model would help, since it’s designed to explain away the Big Bang and is claimed to be compatible with all present observations (and so is equivalent to the standard Lambda-CDM cosmology at the late times).
Maybe interstellar travel is really, really hard—no matter what your level of technology.
Maybe 99% of the habitable planets in the galaxy have been sterilized by unfriendly AI and we owe our current existence to the anthropomorphic principle.
Maybe highly rational entities decide large-scale interstellar travel is suboptimal.
Probably a bunch more possibilities here...
Anthropic.
DEATH) owes his existence to the anthropomorphic principle.
I think this is an under considered explaination. Once you get more than 10 light years away ( and maybe much sooner than that) coordination is hard. You can’t send messages back and forth quickly, you can’t synchronize views and conclusions quickly etc.
Maybe the Agi or civilization or whatnot thinks of starting a colony, realizes that after it does so there will be 2 civilizations or 2 AIs and decides that the increase in the odds of conflict after going from 1 to 2 don’t justify the benefits.
Wouldn’t we see evidence of this?
Or maybe the Planck mass changes over time, as suggested by Chrisof Wetterich recently and only recently reached a level where life or intelligence suddenly became possible everywhere in the galaxy?
That cannot presently be known, although it’s fun to speculate. But I think it helps us more if we can eliminate real-seeming possibilities.
I don’t think this model would help, since it’s designed to explain away the Big Bang and is claimed to be compatible with all present observations (and so is equivalent to the standard Lambda-CDM cosmology at the late times).