Radical Mundanity and the Quiet Galaxy: Reframing the Fermi Paradox
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Robin Cordet argues that the Fermi paradox could be explained by radical mundanity: the galaxy hosts only a modest number of civilizations that aren’t much more advanced than humanity, their limited technology prevents easy contact or recognition, they don’t build megastructures or spread across the galaxy, and any detectable signals would be faint and incremental rather than dramatic.
