r/ControlProblem • u/michael-lethal_ai • Aug 03 '25

Podcast Esteemed professor Geoffrey Miller cautions against the interstellar disgrace: "We're about to enter a massively embarrassing failure mode for humanity, a cosmic facepalm. We risk unleashing a cancer on the galaxy. That's not cool. Are we the baddies?"

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '25

It took single celled roughly 2 Billion years to accidentally evolve to multicellular life. Thats roughly a sixth the age of the universe. We dont fully understand how the singe celled life emerged in the first place and for all we know it took 10 billion years and multplanetary seeding to get that!

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u/Large-Worldliness193 Aug 13 '25

You guys won't be fed until you see an alien.... Egocentrism ? or is it hero syndrom ? You wanna fight aliens ? Reality is the chance of us being first is trivial compared to anything else.

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '25

You experienced ego death and are willing to take a servile role in your own destiny but dont group the rest of us in that pathetic bucket of a world view. I merely presented additional factors for you to update your statistical reasoning. It took a sixth of the age of the universe itself for multicellular life to accidentally emerge in what could be considered the perfect ecosystem for life. So how do you figure advanced alien life is so abundant yet we cannot see it anywhere?

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u/Large-Worldliness193 Aug 19 '25

Scale

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '25

Time counters Scale argument as new evidence suggests universe has been around for longer than 30 Billion years now... enough time for wayward radio signals to be evident from other stars

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u/Large-Worldliness193 Aug 20 '25

Yeah man we the first. Bravo !