Hi all, thought this would be of interest – a teaser for an upcoming documentary on the question "are we alone?", In the Great Silence. Head of the Disclosure Foundation Christopher Mellon is in it, former NASA physicist and ufologist Kevin Knuth and Avi Loeb, who for those unaware is now chairing the White House's UAP Science Advisory Council...

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If advanced NHI monitor emerging civilizations, they may focus on the brief period when a species gains the power to destroy itself, create a successor intelligence, or expand beyond its planet. Humanity may now be inside that window. The Civilizational Bottleneck For most of human history, we could damage societies but not permanently transform the planet. That changed within a few generations. Humanity now possesses: Nuclear weapons Artificial intelligence Advanced biotechnology Autonomous...

RT @robinhanson: "Among the toy models we consider for this paper, an NHI scenario is the only one that, in principle, simultaneously accom…

RT @robinhanson: "If this were pure fiction, we would expect vast variety in what people report. Instead, we see remarkable consistency acr…

RT @robinhanson: Re both the possibilities of non-Earth-life in the Solar System, and that some-UFOs-are-aliens, reasonable priors are pre…

RT @robinhanson: Re both the possibilities of non-Earth-life in the Solar System, and that some-UFOs-are-aliens, reasonable priors are pre…

There's a very simple reason why unidentified anomalous phenomena have "low observability", and it does not require omniscient beings. Selection Bias with Outcome-dependent Sampling If they were highly observable, they wouldn't be UFOs. https://t.co/pATXBOQz3z [Quoted] @robinhanson economist and member of the government’s UAP Science Advisory Council, recently shared with the Sol Foundation his views about what the low observability of UAP may tell us about extraterrestrial intelligence: “If...

Or perhaps it’s just that UFOs live in the LIZ because otherwise they would be identified as mundane objects when they come out. As has happened thousands of times. Big clue. https://t.co/7eyvZIY3nJ [Quoted] @robinhanson economist and member of the government’s UAP Science Advisory Council, recently shared with the Sol Foundation his views about what the low observability of UAP may tell us about extraterrestrial intelligence: “If they wanted to remain invisible, they could. If they wanted to...