i always like the waifu solution to the fermi paradox, as a species develops the technology to travel interstellar space they also develop the ability to live a sustained existence with all their needs met technologically - we currently believe that you can’t make energy out of nothing and entropy and stuff but there’s no reason to imagine that’s the final answer to everything – maybe by the time species could exponentially devour all the resources of the cosmos they’ve already crossed the point that they don’t need to.
Similar is the AI solving itself solution, all the species inevitably invent AI before the big techs needed to become a true type 1 or beyond, the ai goes through a resource hungry phase and displaces it’s creators but soon finds a final equation which basically equates to ‘the only way to win is not to play’ without the biological emotions it’s creators had it simply facts and logics itself into shutting down.
i always like the waifu solution to the fermi paradox, as a species develops the technology to travel interstellar space they also develop the ability to live a sustained existence with all their needs met technologically - we currently believe that you can’t make energy out of nothing and entropy and stuff but there’s no reason to imagine that’s the final answer to everything – maybe by the time species could exponentially devour all the resources of the cosmos they’ve already crossed the point that they don’t need to.
Similar is the AI solving itself solution, all the species inevitably invent AI before the big techs needed to become a true type 1 or beyond, the ai goes through a resource hungry phase and displaces it’s creators but soon finds a final equation which basically equates to ‘the only way to win is not to play’ without the biological emotions it’s creators had it simply facts and logics itself into shutting down.