khafra comments on SIA won't doom you - Less Wrong
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You wrote "the class of all potential civilizations in our galaxy that have reached our level of technological advancement at around the same time as us and seen no aliens"
Does this violate relativity by assuming there exists some absolute type of simultaneity?
Considering the size of the galaxy relative to the age of the universe, I'd say replacing "the same time" with "the same spacelike interval" doesn't change the meaning enough to offset the distracting terminology.