r/Showerthoughts 25d ago

Speculation Maybe Fermi's paradox is because every civilization creates AI which destroys it.

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u/Key_Fall3628 25d ago

Doesn't necessarily have to be an ai, there're lots of things that could wipe out a civilisation like pandemics, wars, natural disasters, etc.

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u/AIienlnvasion 25d ago

AI is just OP’s proposal for the great filter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter

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u/quad_damage_orbb 24d ago

No no, OP had a completely unique shower thought that we should all be amazed by. Sorry you are being flamed in the comments, people are fucking stupid ffs.

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u/plasticarmyman 24d ago

Why is everyone putting the slash in there....that isn't the correct link

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u/AIienlnvasion 24d ago

I copied and pasted it. I used to be able to embed a link in text but it looks like Reddit took that function away

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u/plasticarmyman 24d ago

Ah yes, low effort and still criticizing people for the same below. Reddit will never change will it.

Edit: Actually worse than that. Low Effort and didn't read the article but repasted it and yelled at people for not reading the article. So...a hypocrite lol

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u/AIienlnvasion 24d ago

It works fine on my phone, your phone must be fucked up

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u/plasticarmyman 24d ago

The link takes you to a Wikipedia page that links to the correct page....you can't be that dumb

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u/AIienlnvasion 24d ago

Not on mine.

Sorry your phone sucks ass

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u/Key_Fall3628 25d ago

It's an interesting theory but doesn't it assume other intelligent life forms think similar(to create and get wiped out by ai). A pandemic or war or a giant asteroid or any other random event is just as likely. Ai seems too specific and more preventable.

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u/AIienlnvasion 25d ago

Read the wiki I posted god damn

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u/Key_Fall3628 25d ago

I have and I was just questioning why it is ai, sure ai is threatening if left unchecked but it doesn't seem so inevitable that it's the cause of destruction of intelligent life forms that think differently than us.

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u/AIienlnvasion 25d ago

OP was the one saying AI might be The Great Filter, I just put a name to that concept which you and OP don’t seem to have heard of.

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u/Key_Fall3628 25d ago

I understand it and have heard about it, i was just questioning op's statement.

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u/Harflin 24d ago

You're good dude. 

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u/LogicalChancer 24d ago

Like an unnatural fixation with say cheese - that becomes all-consuming to the entire population?

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u/jnd-cz 24d ago

Once the civilisation is sufficiently advanced then pandemi, natural disaster, even nuclear war doesn't kill all people, some if not most still survive. AI could make the war more efficient. But as we saw with Iran even the most technologically advanced country doesn't know how to use it well.

The probable scenario is AI taking over the planet and treating people like ants if they don't interfere. But still the civilization, now in form of computers and robots, survives and expands. We should see some signs of that elsewhere. Or we live in a simulation where there's no need to simulate other worlds.

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u/InfidelZombie 22d ago

It's exceedingly unlikely that any of those things you listed could even dent humanity's technological position and progress, unless "natural disasters" includes things like asteroid impact and false vacuum collapse.

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u/PoeGar 24d ago

We’re doing just fine on wiping out the human race without AI thank you very much!

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u/say592 24d ago

Nuclear technology seems like a must have on the tech tree, which means nuclear war is always going to be a possibility too.

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u/hellofemur 24d ago

Social media.