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theadvancedapes  ·  4337 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Biological Intelligence is a Fleeting Phase in the Evolution of the Universe

The Wow signal definitely blows my mind. How unbelievable would it have been to be in the room when that was received?

I am always tempted by the following two lines of reasoning as well:

a) If there were Type 1, 2, 3, or 4 civilizations out there, they could probably choose whether they wanted to be detected or not.

b) It could be that sufficient advanced technologies produce patterns and effects that we can't detect with our technologies.





kleinbl00  ·  4337 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Your lines of reasoning were formalized by Martyn J Fogg in 1987 as the "Interdict Hypothesis."

The short version was published in Analog and the long version in Icarus.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/00191035879...

theadvancedapes  ·  4337 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Thanks so much for linking that! I'm going to read it tomorrow.

kleinbl00  ·  4337 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Presuming you've got the login. I read the Analog article when it was new; it made a lot of sense at the time. I don't know of many scholarly articles that cite Analog.