Fermi’s Regulation

Enrico Fermi discovered a paradox: If there’s clever life on different planets, why haven’t we heard from them but?

Maybe the reply is that this:

Any civilization sufficiently superior to journey nice distances should work in group.

This pro-social conduct, mixed with the tech they develop, will inevitably result in some form of social media.

And as soon as social media arrives, the civilization will battle to outlive.

I’m extra optimistic than this ‘regulation’ would have you ever imagine, nevertheless it’s price acknowledging that we change into the tales we inform, and the social media algorithms we dwell with trigger us to inform tales we would remorse.

It’s not our job for use by social media, or to change into instruments of the algorithm.

Hat tip to Hugh.