Vladimir_Nesov comments on What would an ultra-intelligent machine make of the great filter? - Less Wrong Discussion
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You are stating "I think ultra-intelligent machine will believe X", but this simply means that you believe X, so why the talk about ultra-intelligent machines? It serves no purpose.
(It looks like LW version of the "All reasonable/rational/Scottish people believe X" dark side rhetoric is "Ultra-intelligent machines will believe X".)
(b) is counterfactual today. Nobody can calculate how many nearby star systems should have given birth to star faring civilizations - since nobody knows p(origin of life). We can't even make life from plausible inorganic materials yet. We are clueless - and thus highly uncertain.
OK. I think that if an ultra-intelligent AI determines that (a), (b) and (c) are correct then the zoo hypothesis is probably the solution to Fermi's paradox. I think this last sentence "serves a purpose" because (a), (b) and (c) seem somewhat reasonable and thus after reading my post a reader would give a higher weight to the zoo hypothesis being true.
So you are using the ultra-intelligent AI as a kind of Omega, then? To establish that (a), (b), and (c) are definitely true?