Civilizations
producing intelligent signals we can detect across the vast distances of this
universe have seen their intelligence explosions and survived. From first
computers to super general intelligence probably takes no more than 200 years -
a blink of the eye in a 14-billion-year-old universe. Given the near exponential
growth of ‘artificial’ intelligence these civilizations must possess an
intelligence billions of times greater than our own.
So, where are they? They must have spread out and by now should be ubiquitous in a universe this old. The sky should be full of intelligent signal. And yet, silence.
Either they have nothing to say, they didn't survive their intelligence explosions, or there is something quite fundamental we are missing in our understanding.
So, where are they? They must have spread out and by now should be ubiquitous in a universe this old. The sky should be full of intelligent signal. And yet, silence.
Either they have nothing to say, they didn't survive their intelligence explosions, or there is something quite fundamental we are missing in our understanding.
