What does the Fermi paradox tell us about AI future, if anything? I have a hard time simultaneously believing both “we will accidentally tile the universe with paperclips” and “the universe is not yet tiled with paperclips”. Is the answer just that this is just saying that the Great Filter is already past?
And what about the anthropic principle? Am I supposed to believe that the universe went like 13 billion years without much in the way of intelligent life, then for a brief few millennia there’s human civilization with me in it, and then the next N billion years it’s just paperclips?
What does the Fermi paradox tell us about AI future, if anything? I have a hard time simultaneously believing both “we will accidentally tile the universe with paperclips” and “the universe is not yet tiled with paperclips”. Is the answer just that this is just saying that the Great Filter is already past?
And what about the anthropic principle? Am I supposed to believe that the universe went like 13 billion years without much in the way of intelligent life, then for a brief few millennia there’s human civilization with me in it, and then the next N billion years it’s just paperclips?
I see now that this has been discussed here in this thread already, at least the Fermi part. Oops!