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ordinary, it's all interesting, though terrifyingly complex .. the Drake equation was new to me, and now this guy sees
it as obsolete .. though is anything ever for sure .. except we physically and mentally go kapoot! .. chuckle .. anyway ..

excerpt .. the very last of the article and the first bit of the first comment .. [...]

Put another way, as we continue to search for advanced ETI's, and as we come to discover the absurdity of our isolation here on Earth, we may have no choice but to accept the hypothesis that advanced life does not venture out into space for whatever reason (the most likely being self-destruction).

(Yes, F6, is likely on the mark there.)

Our other option is to cross our fingers and hope that something radical and completely unpredictable
lies on the other side of the technological Singularity. .. Posted by George at 5/31/2007

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casey said... excerpt also ..

This is an amazing post — well written enough for me (a layman speculator) to slog through it.
And the link to your previous entry, "When did Intelligent Life First Emerge," was equally informative.

I seem to recall Kurzweil writing about an as-yet-unconfirmable principle similar to the Second Law of Thermodynamics in which built-in barriers prevent ANY intelligent civ from achieving Singularity. That would be even more depressing than Fermi's Paradox. Can anyone confirm?

The idea of post-Singularity civs doing dimensional engineering could be the theoretical
loophole to Fermi's. Unfortunately, like M-theory, it seems entirely speculative. .. [...] much more