The Fermi Paradox: Rare Technology

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Isaac Arthur

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🗓️ 31 October 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

The Fermi Paradox, the big question of where all the aliens are, has many proposed solutions focusing on what might lower the odds of intelligent species arising on another world, or what might end technological civilizations or cause them to go unseen by us and our SETI efforts. But what if intelligence rarely leads to technological civilizations in the first place? Could there be countless planets in our galaxy occupied by species who never came to value technology? Watch the video version: https://youtu.be/XcrrW1GgHso Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: http://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur SFIA Merchandise available: https://www.signil.com/sfia/ Social Media: Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1583992725237264/ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/IsaacArthur/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Isaac_A_Arthur on Twitter and RT our future content. SFIA Discord Server: https://discord.gg/53GAShE Credits: The Fermi Paradox Great Filters: Rare Technology Episode 210, Season 5 E44 Written by: Isaac Arthur Editors: Darius Said Keith Blockus Cover Art: Jakub Grygier https://www.artstation.com/jakub_grygier Graphics by: Jeremy Jozwik https://www.artstation.com/zeuxis_of_losdiajana Ken York https://www.facebook.com/YDVisual/ LegionTech Studios https://hades9.com Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur Music: Lombus, "Cosmic Soup" https://lombus.bandcamp.com Markus Junnikkala, "A Memory of Earth" https://www.markusjunnikkala.com/ AJ Prasad, "Aether" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA8-7qwaEPU Lombus, "Hydrogen Sonata" https://lombus.bandcamp.com AJ Prasad, "Staring Through" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA8-7qwaEPU See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hello, SFIA audio listeners, in this month's Nebula exclusive, Big Alien Theory,
0:05.0	we're asking the reason alien civilizations might be rare is because most aliens are huge.
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0:28.3	using the link in the description.
0:30.9	There are so many hurdles in our universe keeping intelligence from arising.
0:35.9	Once it has, it seems inevitable that intelligence
0:38.8	should pursue technology, but perhaps it isn't.
0:41.8	So today we return to our Fermi Paradox Great Filter series for a fourth installment
0:59.2	of what had been intended just to be a trilogy, focusing first on what factors of our universe
1:04.4	and galaxy might make life rare, then what might make life-sustaining worlds like Earth rare, and finally on what might
1:12.2	make the evolution of intelligence rare.
1:15.1	In rare intelligence, we did look briefly at what might make the rise of technology once
1:20.3	you had intelligence less inevitable than we might think, but mostly concluded that once
1:25.3	you had a value for technology, it might not be inevitable
1:28.7	that you go down that path, but most would, so it would probably be a minor filter at
1:34.0	most.
1:35.0	Since that episode came out, a little over two years ago, I've been thinking on the matter
1:39.8	more and I'm no longer as confident on that assertion, and we're going to dig into that
1:44.8	today and focus more on some psychological and sociological phenomena that might present
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