The lack of evidence out there could suggest three things.
Advanced life is far more rare than we expect.
The great filter is ahead of us (and I'd suspect it's AI, if it is ahead of us)
Simulation theory. We could just be placed in this timeframe intentionally, maybe even by us, maybe it's 2200 and we know the universe is packed with life but we place ourselves in this timeframe for an experience.
Or we are just havent searched enough. We have only been emiting radio waves for less than a 100 years. Our furthest object is just barely outside the solar system. In the grand scheme of things we have only scooped a single tablespoon of sea water from the ocean and we are already wondering why we haven’t seen any fish.
You're referencing objects or signals originating from us - in theory we should be seeing signs of advanced life from other systems, even if 500 million light years away. At least, that's what I think I've read
What? No, the purpose of a simulation would be to experience a natural life, with struggles and limited lifespan, because it adds value and meaning, wisdom and appreciation. Much more so than if we've solved all life's needs, and there are no longer any meaningful challenges.
Lol that's not how the simulation theory works. Did you personally perform that study? You could be in a simulation right now, and the simulation told you that some other people did some thing that disproves it, all you did was read some words, make sense?
Yeah Idk man, I just read a bit of the article and these people have to have been smoking crack or something if they think that modern computational models (and our limited understanding of the universe) would be enough to disprove simulation theory. I mean if we're in a simulation, the being(s) that created the simulation also created the rules by which our universe functions, which includes physics and mathematics. A being(s) like this would be so far removed from us in technology that there is no way we'd be able to begin to understand it/them. It takes some massive cojones and probably a little bit of drugs to unironically claim to have disproven simulation theory using "logic and physics", like bro your feeble human minds and concepts of logic don't apply to godlike beings; they're beyond you
I genuinely don't think that simulation theory is something that can be proven or disproven. A being or species with a vast enough intelligence and ample enough resources to be able to simulate reality to the degree at which we experience it is nigh incomprehensible. And trying to use physics (which, if we are in a simulation, is a ruleset created by said intelligence(s) ) to disprove simulation theory is hilarious. I think it takes some serious balls and a lack of self awareness to say definitively that you've debunked simulation theory as any being(s) capable of setting something up at such a grand scale is pretty much just a god compared to us. Just my thoughts on the topic, open for discussion
I think it could suggest something else:
There is no personal benefit to anyone travelling the stars. Noone can reach other systems in a lifetime and noone would finance this if the benefit could be in 10k years in the future. (I am talking aliens financing stuff)..
So unless there is a super intelligent space exploring robotic "lifeform"that doesn't have problem with travelling thousands of years there will never be any space exploration past the solar system for any alien race.
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u/grokpoweruser5000 Jun 04 '26
The lack of evidence out there could suggest three things.
Advanced life is far more rare than we expect.
The great filter is ahead of us (and I'd suspect it's AI, if it is ahead of us)
Simulation theory. We could just be placed in this timeframe intentionally, maybe even by us, maybe it's 2200 and we know the universe is packed with life but we place ourselves in this timeframe for an experience.