I met the idea of Lebowski theorem as an argument which explains the Fermi paradox: all advance civilizations or AIs wirehead themselves. But here I am not convinced.
For example, if civilization consists of many advance individuals and many of them wirehead themselves, then remaining will be under pressure of Darwinian evolution and eventually only the ones survive who find the ways to perform space exploration without wireheading. Maybe they will be some limited specialized minds with very specific ways of thinking – and this could explain absurdity of observed UAP behaviour.
I met the idea of Lebowski theorem as an argument which explains the Fermi paradox: all advance civilizations or AIs wirehead themselves. But here I am not convinced.
For example, if civilization consists of many advance individuals and many of them wirehead themselves, then remaining will be under pressure of Darwinian evolution and eventually only the ones survive who find the ways to perform space exploration without wireheading. Maybe they will be some limited specialized minds with very specific ways of thinking – and this could explain absurdity of observed UAP behaviour.
Actually, I explored more about wireheading here: “Wireheading as a Possible Contributor to Civilizational Decline”.