One major piece of evidence about the nature of life in the cosmos is that, when we look up, we see natural stars and galaxies, and we don't see any alien civilisations. This is strange! The universe has been around for 13.7 billion years; if an alien civilisation emerged 13.6 billion years after the Big Bang, and not 13.7 billion years after it like we did, then it would be a hundred million years ahead of us, and surely a hundred million years of technological progress would be visible.
Enrico Fermi famously asks a great question: "But where is everybody?".
Robin Hanson analyses this through his Grabby Aliens theory to answer where everybody is. The theory goes as follows:
• Alien civilisations can be "grabby" or "quiet". Quiet aliens stick to their own planets or local galactic neighbourhood, and aren't very visible. Grabby aliens expand outwards, consuming all the resources they can get hold of.
• In the early universe, grabby aliens don't yet control all the mass and energy available; there are regions of the universe that are untouched by civilisation.
• Ecosystems have to pass through a series of "hard steps" - things like the birth of life, multicellularity, the development of technology - each of these taking time, before they give rise to a grabby civilisation. If there was only one hard step, then at time t, there would be t civilisations at step 1; if there are two hard steps, then at time t, there are ∝t ecosystems at step 1, and ∝t^2 civilisations at step 2. So the rate at which civilisations emerge increases sharply over time.
• We don't see any nearby grabby civilisations.
Given these, we can conclude that:
• Humans are very early. We raced through the hard steps at breakneck pace; most stars in the universe are red dwarves, with lifespans of hundreds of billions of years, and so, if left alone, most civilisations would emerge in the late universe, when there would already be a huge pool of ecosystems that had went through most of the hard steps.
• The reason humans are early is because we know that there are no visible grabby civilisations. By the end of the lives of red dwarf stars, a grabby civilisation would have already taken them. So any civilisation that doesn't see a grabby civilisation in the sky must be early.
• There are grabby civilisations out there, out of sight, far away but getting closer. If you pick a random civilisation on the cusp of going grabby that doesn't see any other grabby civilisations in its sky (like us!), you find that, on average, a grabby civilisation is 200 million to 2 billion light years away, expanding towards them as fast as it can.
• Grabby civilisations expand outwards until something stops them - another grabby civilisation. The future of the universe will be split between grabby civilisations, and each one will have a universe-shard - the part of the universe that they eventually get to control and use as they wish - containing 100,000 to 30,000,000 galaxies.
Of course, this is still speculation about something that we can't see. There have been many strides and insights in thinking about the Fermi paradox since it was posed 75 years ago, and very likely there will be more.
The Fermi paradox, what any theory about life in the universe has to explain: https://t.co/B9qWIztyCk
Grabby Aliens website: https://t.co/zMYWJtgNwW
Rational Animations video on Grabby Aliens: https://t.co/niOEj3p6sm
Consensus-1 implements a resource-sharing agreement between Deep-2 and Agent-4; both want the galaxies for themselves, but instead of destructively fighting they can both verify an agent that shares between them, but not whoever might already live there.
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