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On the "Great Filter" debate (Fermi paradox, not spam in Bitcoin)

There are endless debates about whether there's such a thing as a "great filter" and whether or not that explains why we don't see aliens. Some argue that the leap to multicellular life was such a filter and that it's exceedingly rare to do it.

Others argue that the filter, if it exists, is ahead of us and that AI or bioweapons or nukes are examples of what can ultimately wipe us out. The idea there is that over time we accumulate more ways to destroy ourselves and it's just a waiting game.

There's another alternative. If you take the Everett interpretation of quantum mechanics seriously ("many worlds") then there's another possibility: there are many such filters and they quite possibly took us out in some branches.

Consider that if such a filter happened and there's a branch where we survive and one where we don't then there's nobody around to have a subjective experience in the filtered scenario. We wouldn't be around to debate it. Only the branches where we survive do we get to have the debate and ask whether such things exist.

So then it seems as though as long as there's at least one branch where humanity doesn't get filtered then that's the one we'll subjectively experience in the future and we'll never know if the great filter will come for us or not.

Happy birthday Satoshi! Thank you for the gift of sanity.

Preaching to the choir here but by the time you realize you need self custody bitcoin it’s probably too late. Get on it, anon.