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Re:What If We Haven’t Met Aliens yet Because They’ve Messed ... by harshreality on Saturday August 03, 2019 @08:04PM (#20603554)
That passage is something of an afterthought, from the epilogue of his book, but it's still disappointing he doesn't credit Robin Hanson for coming up with the Great Filter concept[1], or mention the x-risk[2] community which contemplates this stuff.

[1] http://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/greatfilter.html

[2] https://nickbostrom.com/existential/risks.html / https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Existential_risk

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Re:What If We Haven’t Met Aliens yet Because They’ve Messed ... by mlthoughts2018 on Saturday August 03, 2019 @08:09PM (#20603587)
I was going to say the same thing. This post just reads like a knock off Great Filter concept with less analysis put into it. For example, environmental devastation is only one of many possible causes of Great Filter-like phenomena.
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