A (real)I's should find the universe pretty boring, too boring to be (un)friendly. At talk touching that at the IAS by Wilczek: "Quantum theory radically transforms our fundamental understanding of physical reality. It reveals that the world contains a hidden richness of structure that we have barely begun to control and exploit. In this lecture, Frank Wilczek indicates the extraordinary potential ofquantum engineering (the size and nature of Hilbert space); reviews one important ongoing effort to harness it (topological quantum computing); and speculates on its ultimate prospects (quantum minds).": http://video.ias.edu/wilczek I just looked it and found his remarks, that supersmart aliens may just have lost their interest in the universe, a nice confirmation of my idea, which came from an other route to the same conclusion: http://ideafoundlings.blogspot.com/2009/09/seti.html