gwern comments on Risks of downloading alien AI via SETI search - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 15 March 2013 05:25:49PM 14 points [-]

The scheme requires reception by an advanced civilization during a narrow window of opportunity; the radio waves have no effect on the billions of dead planets all around. A probe, on the other hand, presumably would be able to affect any system.

Since we observe so few life-filled planets or signals out there...