zethrae.us/blog » evolution http://zethrae.us/blog Miscellaneous Geekery Thu, 19 Aug 2010 01:32:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 An interesting extrapolation from the Fermi Paradox http://zethrae.us/blog/2010/an-interesting-extrapolation-from-the-fermi-paradox/ http://zethrae.us/blog/2010/an-interesting-extrapolation-from-the-fermi-paradox/#comments Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:54:09 +0000 zethraeus http://zethrae.us/blog/?p=176 Nick Bostrom of Oxford University has written a damn interesting paper arguing that finding traces of alien life would be a very bad omen for humanity. He accepts the Fermi Paradox as a paradox and makes some very interesting deductions regarding a ‘Great Filter’ preventing the rise of space faring alien civilizations.

Read the paper. (Really).

And here’s a reddit thread about the paper which points out some of the unstated assumptions.

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