Oligopsony comments on UFAI cannot be the Great Filter - Less Wrong

35 Post author: Thrasymachus 22 December 2012 11:26AM

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Comment author: Oligopsony 26 December 2012 10:47:41PM 2 points [-]

An implicit assumption here is that alien civilizations have an observation weight of zero.

If complex space-faring civilizations have spread across the galaxy to produce lots of observers capable of anthropic reasoning, why aren't we in one?

If they don't, doesn't that just reframe the Filter? Technological evolution into Blindsight-style Scramblers sure sounds like extinction to me.