Benja comments on The Fermi paradox as evidence against the likelyhood of unfriendly AI - Less Wrong Discussion
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To put this point slightly differently, the Fermi paradox isn't strong evidence for any of the following over the others: (a) Humanity will create Friendly AI; (b) humanity create Unfriendly AI; (c) humanity will not be able to produce any sort of FOOMing AI, but will develop into a future civilization capable of colonizing the stars. This is because all of these, if the analog had in the past happened on an alien planet sufficiently close to us (e.g. in our galaxy), we would see the difference: to the degree that the Fermi paradox provides evidence about (a), (b) and (c), it provides about the same amount of evidence against each. (It does provide evidence against each, since one possible explanation for the Fermi paradox is a Great Filter that's still ahead of us.)