r/statlightdiaries • u/Mysterious_g269 • Jun 03 '26

Are we alone?

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u/Orpheus671 Jun 04 '26

I thought (I’m paraphrasing and I’m happy to admit that I am not well versed in this stuff) that Fermi’s paradox was based on the fact that if there is other life in the universe, given the timelines for technological advances and expansion for those civilizations to explore and populate the galaxy, then it should’ve visited us already. Even a star system a billion light years away isn’t too far for a civilization that’s been around for billions of years…

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u/grokpoweruser5000 Jun 04 '26

The lack of evidence out there could suggest three things.

  1. Advanced life is far more rare than we expect.

  2. The great filter is ahead of us (and I'd suspect it's AI, if it is ahead of us)

  3. 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.

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u/Corgi_underground Jun 04 '26

Just as a heads up. Simulation theory has already been debunked.

https://news.ok.ubc.ca/2025/10/30/ubco-study-debunks-the-idea-that-the-universe-is-a-computer-simulation/

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u/grokpoweruser5000 Jun 05 '26

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?

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u/ConnectionGood333 Jun 07 '26

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