You're looking at Less Wrong's discussion board. This includes all posts, including those that haven't been promoted to the front page yet. For more information, see About Less Wrong.

Lalartu comments on Quickly passing through the great filter - Less Wrong Discussion

10 Post author: James_Miller 06 July 2014 06:50PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (50)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: Lalartu 08 July 2014 09:01:27AM 0 points [-]

If "late filter" variant is true, it means interstellar colonization is just impossible, for reasons that can be outside the limits of modern scientific knowledge.

Comment author: James_Miller 08 July 2014 02:39:16PM 0 points [-]

and a reason could include that advanced civilizations destroy themselves with very high probability before they can colonize space.

Comment author: Lalartu 09 July 2014 09:41:10AM 0 points [-]

"Very high probability" of this kind in practice means "always". So either technological progress brings some dangers that just cannot be avoided before building starships is possible, or starships thenselves are not viable.