Like, we’re destroying the one place we know is a sure bet on where we can prosper if we keep it healthy, but instead the world’s richest man is trying to expand to other planets while this one’s ability to sustain life is in jeopardy. IMO that makes us potentially a very stupid species compared to a species that doesn’t really care about meeting other aliens because they value the life on their own planet far more than we do.

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    Nah. They invent generative AI and their civilizational progress stalls forever.

    They (we) become Wall-E human style characters.

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      And I guess the AI never actually becomes advanced enough to explore the cosmos itself? Otherwise that would be the alien life we run into, right?

      So they get addicted to AI, but it’s only marginally better than our shit AI. lmao great.

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        Well, GenAI cannot invent anything. Has no agency. So it’s stagnation until the sun becomes a red giant