Alien hunters have spent 60 years finding new solutions for the Drake Equation

Re:Alien hunters have spent 60 years finding new solutions f... by KronisLV on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @08:16AM (#29403353)

Care to list some or maybe link some literature? It's certainly an interesting argument to make, that's for sure!

That said, if there were an intelligence at the scale of a planet (just a thought experiment, maybe like the "Planetary AC" in The Last Question by Isaac Asimov: https://www.multivax.com/last_question.html), i doubt they'd see us as much more than mold, which we'd find on a loaf of bread ourselves.

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Re:Alien hunters have spent 60 years finding new solutions f... by tshaddox on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @02:38PM (#29408179)

The argument I'm most familiar with comes from David Deutsch. Here's a very quick summary of the argument: https://www.bretthall.org/alien-intelligence.html

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