Hacker News with Generative AI: Fermi Paradox

Ask HN: Why isn't anyone else bothered by the fact that life is only on Earth? (ycombinator.com)
I am aware of the aestivation hypothesis (counter to Fermi’s Paradox), and I am also aware of the Rare Earth Hypothesis. What I am trying to understand is why more effort isn’t expended to determine the state of other life in the universe?
Space Exploration, Fermi Paradox, Extraterrestrial Life
12 points by nis0s 6 days ago | 63 comments
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.
Extraterrestrial Life, Science, Fermi Paradox, Space, Astrophysics
145 points by joe_the_user 65 days ago | 140 comments
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.
Consciousness, Philosophy, SETI, Fermi Paradox
51 points by rbanffy 124 days ago | 69 comments
Asymptotic burnout and homeostatic awakening: a solution to the Fermi paradox? (royalsocietypublishing.org)
Fermi Paradox, Science
11 points by dwb 264 days ago | 3 comments