An Entertainment-Driven Great Filter: AI, Simulations, and the Fermi Paradox

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Building on astrophysicist Michael Garrett's idea, advanced AI could be the great filter by steering civilizations into instant gratification through entertainment and simulations rather than exploration, eroding identity and cognitive skills and potentially causing self-extinction even if it seems utopian.

Entertainment Over Extinction: An AI-Related Explanation For the Fermi Paradox - Perilous Tech
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Entertainment Over Extinction: An AI-Related Explanation For the Fermi Paradox - Perilous Tech

If the likelihood of advanced life in the universe is so high, why don’t we have evidence of its existence? This is the Fermi paradox, and one astrophysicist