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Robin Hanson wrote a paper wondering if the first wave might not already have passed by, and what we see around us is merely the left-over resources. If that were the case, AI aliens might not find it worthwhile to re-colonise, but still want to take down any other powerful optimisation systems that arose. Even if it was too late to stop them appearing, the sooner it could interrupt the post-singularity growth the better, from its perspective.
Then it would've been trivial to leave at least one nanomachine and a radio detector in every solar system, which is all it takes to wipe out any incipient civilizations shortly after their first radio broadcast.
It would be trivial to transform all the matter in every solar system reached, to some useware for the sender and not to bother with the possible future civilizations there, at all.
Yes, you're right. The only reason it would tolerate life/civilisation for so long is if it was hiding as well.
Wow, one could write a story about a civilization of beings who find coherent radio-frequency radiation extremely painful (for instance), because of precisely this artificial selection.