Fermi paradox

A Reddit masterpiece: here’s the short version.

The post basically describes the Fermi Paradox wearing an AI hat. The author assumes AGI is a necessary precursor to the development of faster than light speed interstellar travel and then leaps straight into cosmic sociology.

Because we haven’t noticed aliens there are three possible explanations:

A: Civilisations keep inventing AGI and then promptly delete themselves because why wouldn’t they?

B: Aliens exist, see us, shrug, and leave.

C: Aliens visit and are invisible.

Maybe interstellar travel is constrained by physics, not IQ.

Or once we’ve developed AGI we go straight into the matrix.

Or, better still, we have seen the aliens and didn’t realise it.