What if the Filter inevitably happens before you reach astronomical signatures, and doesn’t itself create a signature? Or the signature is brief enough, and civilizations uncommon enough, that 150 years is not enough time to catch an example.
That’s definitely possible! And it is a worry. But there is no reason to worry specifically about AI x-risk, since there is no indication that an SAI will have this oddly specific behavior.
What if the Filter inevitably happens before you reach astronomical signatures, and doesn’t itself create a signature? Or the signature is brief enough, and civilizations uncommon enough, that 150 years is not enough time to catch an example.
That’s definitely possible! And it is a worry. But there is no reason to worry specifically about AI x-risk, since there is no indication that an SAI will have this oddly specific behavior.