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banned_mainaccount t1_jdrk7hh wrote

Reply to comment by Arcady in The whole reality is just so bizzare when you really think about it. by aalluubbaa

the delay increases the farther they're from us. so we should atleast observe something in our closer galaxies. 1000 years are nothing in evolution of a species. so we shouldn't at least found something in our 1000 lightyear radius. i think occurrence of intelligent life, or life in general, is more rare than people might think. so many random factors have to come in precisely right place and time for it work, at all.

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banned_mainaccount t1_jdrjcaq wrote

Reply to comment by Ginkotree48 in The whole reality is just so bizzare when you really think about it. by aalluubbaa

i appreciate the enthusiasm but correlation ≠ causation. yes game and reality are similar but that doesn't mean reality is game or game is reality. and very interesting pattern to notice is that in the age of books people thought the world is just a big story, in this age of games people think the world is just a game, in future people will think the world is just a vr. but it's actually the opposite this technology tries to replicate the reality not the vise versa

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banned_mainaccount t1_jdrhosy wrote

Reply to comment by HatsusenoRin in The whole reality is just so bizzare when you really think about it. by aalluubbaa

think intelligence as a protective mechanisms in animals, some have horns, some have teeth some have shell they can hide in, and some have better understanding of surroundings and Better pattern recognition to survive in predatory world. when you see it as a qualitative feature rather than quantitative one, then things make more sense. statistically it's very possible for millions of living things to exist in this vast universe, but it's quite improbable for them to have intelligence. just look around the species we coexist with. they're all aliens with most of them having very low intelligence. the most intelligent of them are our close descendants, monkeys. and our closest descendants don't have nearly as iq as us which just tells us that intelligence is not necessary for living beings. so there are definitely aliens around us, but we can't see them because they can't make a significant change to their planet so we could notice them. i think scientists should look for the planets with continuously changing atmosphere because intelligence is only "adoptive" protective mechanism that can get a species through constantly changing atmosphere

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banned_mainaccount t1_j67ehwq wrote

Reply to comment by TopicRepulsive7936 in When do you believe the singularity will happen? by Stranfort

bro i don't think you understand the words you're using. yeah it's very likely, but it's not "self evident". first of all even saying sun will rise tomorrow, is not 100% true, tho chances of it not rising are astronomically low. and when we talk about something like technological singularity, where we have to consider millions of factors to predict what will happen in future, there is really no telling. you could say it's likely, but not it's "correct". science doesn't consider anything to be self evident. even 1+1=2 has 300 pages proof in principia mathematica. i know some people have this tendency to believe anything that will make them and their life special, it's exciting to believe that world will change in your lifetime, but there's a fine line between what you want and what you get.

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