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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 01 December 2014 11:10:04AM 0 points [-]

That's a category of solutions to the Fermi paradox, but it requires uniformity of motive inside a species (no-one will want to expand) and between species (all species will stay put). I've addressed these issues at the end of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrUWkfeJABY&list=UU_qqMD08PFrDfPREoBEL6IQ