Eliezer Yudkowsky

Excellent entire thread.

This is known as the Fermi paradox and is orthogonal to AI issues - you run into it whether (unlikely) biological evolved creatures are eating the stars, or superintelligences are. Either can build fast probes. Best analysis I've seen:

I think the opening chapters of A Fire Upon the Deep did a great job.

It may be unfair to compare the best of the past with the random of the present; but even so, reading this essay from 1909, I am struck by how it takes a delight in ideas and thinking, which seems to be almost vanished from the present day.

This is an important thread full of important facts I did not know.

This is an incredibly good thread full of candid truths compressed into tweets. I've never retweeted so many component tweets before. Anyone who holds out hope in "AI policy" should read this to become acquainted with basic realities.

This is the best thing you'll read today, and that's all that matters.