Fermi paradox has a much simpler answer: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/03/ssc-journal-club-dissolving-the-fermi-paradox/
That analysis has been trenchantly criticised and I don’t find it convincing.
I haven’t heard this. What’s the strongest criticism?
If the linked SSC article is about the aestivation hypothesis, see the rebuttal here.
No the SSC article is about how you should pay attention to the distribution of aliens in different universes, and that in most of them you won’t find any, while the mean can still be pretty high.
Fermi paradox has a much simpler answer: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/03/ssc-journal-club-dissolving-the-fermi-paradox/
That analysis has been trenchantly criticised and I don’t find it convincing.
I haven’t heard this. What’s the strongest criticism?
If the linked SSC article is about the aestivation hypothesis, see the rebuttal here.
No the SSC article is about how you should pay attention to the distribution of aliens in different universes, and that in most of them you won’t find any, while the mean can still be pretty high.