Hacker News with Generative AI: Fermi Paradox

Advanced Civilizations Could Be Indistinguishable from Nature (universetoday.com)
Sometimes in science you have to step back and take another look at underlying assumptions. Sometimes its necessary when progress stalls. One of the foundational questions of our day concerns the Fermi Paradox, the contradiction between what seems to be a high probability of extraterrestrial life and the total lack of evidence that it exists.
Phenomenal consciousness is alien to us: SETI and the Fermi paradox (sciencedirect.com)
Illusionism is an eliminativist position about qualia stating that phenomenal consciousness is nothing more than an introspective illusion.
Asymptotic burnout and homeostatic awakening: a solution to the Fermi paradox? (royalsocietypublishing.org)