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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.