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[–] 7 points 3 months ago* (7 children)

AI SOLVES THE FERMI PARADOX

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I wouldn't say "solves" so much as answers whether our great filter is ahead of us or behind us (it's the former, btw).

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    IMO it's more of a case that there are a ton of great filters, some of which we've passed through already, others are still ahead. But all the ones that we've previously passed probably mean that intelligent life capable of advanced technology is very rare, possibly even to the point that we're the only ones in the galaxy.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Bacteriaphages are no more dangerous to complex life than a knife is to single-cellular life.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    What? A bacteriophage in your gut could definitely kill you.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago*

    bacteriophages only infect bacteria, hence the name. they cant infect eukaryotes, or even things like archaea. also they target specific strains of bacteria, and only the ones that arnt resistant to bacteriaphages.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    How? Do you know how they work? What they are? You have literally trillions in your gut right now. There are literally more bacteriaphages inside of you than human cells and bacteria combined.

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