If we haven’t seen such an extinction in the archaeological record, it can mean one of several things:
misalignment is rare, or
misalignment is not rare once the species becomes intelligent, but intelligence is rare or
intelligence usually results in transcendence, so there’s only one transition before the bio becomes irrelevant in the lightcone (and we are it)
We don’t know which. I think it’s a combination of 2 and 3.
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If we haven’t seen such an extinction in the archaeological record, it can mean one of several things:
misalignment is rare, or
misalignment is not rare once the species becomes intelligent, but intelligence is rare or
intelligence usually results in transcendence, so there’s only one transition before the bio becomes irrelevant in the lightcone (and we are it)
We don’t know which. I think it’s a combination of 2 and 3.