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| ▲ | Supermancho 2 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| In the book Calculating God, a character notes that this is a common civilization-wide choice. Living in virtual reality, rather than trying to expand into the vast expanses of space, is a common trope as much as it's a logical choice. It neatly explains the Fermi Paradox. In some fiction, like The Matrix, the choice might be forced due to cultural shifts, but the outcome is the same. A relatively sterile low-energy state civilization doing pure processing. |
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| ▲ | ithkuil 2 days ago | parent [-] | | I wonder if it's illogical to think that all civilizations must always pick the most logical of the options | | |
| ▲ | yetihehe 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Those civilisations that make too much illogical choices probably die off. | | |
| ▲ | ithkuil 2 days ago | parent [-] | | True. But it's not a binary choice. All it takes is to make one sub-optmial choice for the universe to be filled up with von-neuman probes in all star systems |
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| ▲ | triMichael 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Kurzgesagt just made a video on it a couple months back:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMm-U2pHrXE |
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| ▲ | CamperBob2 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Here you go:
https://pastebin.com/raw/SUd5sLRC And it only cost 0.006 rain forests! |
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| ▲ | UltraSane 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aestivation_hypothesis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9sh9NpL4i8 https://mindmatters.ai/2020/10/researchers-the-aliens-exist-... https://aleph.se/andart2/space/the-aestivation-hypothesis-po... |
