gjm comments on Open thread, December 7-13, 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gjm 07 December 2015 05:52:12PM 12 points [-]

In so far as the Fermi paradox implies we're in great danger, it also suggests that exciting newly-possible things we might try could be more dangerous than they look. Perhaps some strange feedback loop involving intelligence enhancement is part of the danger. (The usual intelligence-enhancement feedback loop people worry about around here involves AI, of course, but perhaps that's not the only one that's scary.)

Comment author: skeptical_lurker 07 December 2015 07:07:59PM 2 points [-]

Hostile intelligences would presumably still create Dyson spheres/colonise the galaxy/emit radio waves/do something to alert other civilisations to their presence. The Fermi paradox has to be something like superweapons, not superintelllegnece.