Why do we not see signs of alien technological singularities written all over the cosmos?
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Extropia DaSilva
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Perhaps the Singularity invented and perfected a Cloaking Device, so no facets of a Singularity (e.g. Everlengthy Habitats, AKA "Exameter Roads" or "Parsec Parkways") are seen by more primitive races in or near our galaxy. If we saw what appeared to be a light-years long string through space, this discovery would change the course of mankind's progress in a big, big way. Same for other signs of alien technological singularities. This may be why their Singularity -decides- to cloak their characteristics from astronomers galaxywide. As for allied interstellar civilizations with technologies at or around the same level as the singularitous imperium, their Singularity will somehow figure out a way to let them see it, but not let the more primitive, not-so-spacefaring races see it.
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Because it would not be in their interest to have their tech level be known to lessor tech level entities. Out of sight out of mind so to speak may be the best approach up to a point.
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"Fences make for good neighbors" - Frost Singularities are a good point, they probably are plural. They likely interact with each other, without interfering with each other, there may very well be a pleasant stalemate on many levels, competition would not be this kind - active demand by two or more organisms or kinds of organisms for some environmental resource in short supply, but rather more like a friendly rivalry where everyone has at least a sporting chance. To put it more in sports terminology, they are the majors, we are the minors. They are professionals, we are amateurs. OR. We don't always get what we see. For example: I stood outside my door one early morning, looking at the newly bare trees, I saw a rather large whitish mass that I mistook to be a hornet's nest, (hornets have been previously spotted) I went to get binoculars for a closer view, it wasn't until the not-a-hornet's-nest moved that my perception begin to match reality. It was an owl. gawell
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Because when you have reached that level of technology you either learn that conflict isn't the way to proceed or you never progress any further! This may just be the outer limit for all civilizations to face! What will it be conflict or cooperation? Are you willing to accept the consequences that go with each selection?
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because we are the most technologically advanced species in the universe? because it takes so bloody long for light to travel anywhere and we're "on the edge"? There's a ton of reasons - but i refuse to say "we're the only ones here"
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There's a few possible answers to that question. We could be the first technological life within our light cone. Maybe no civilization makes it to that point without self-destructing. (We're not home-free yet) Maybe post-singularity space is, through super-efficient energy harvesting methods, totally black to our telescopes. (Maybe dark matter is filled with post-singularity civilization(s)?) Maybe this universe is actually a humanity-simulation device with no need to produce other technological species. To save on computer power, only the things that humans see are calculated. (We're not just the first, but the only) But really, to answer this question, we'd need to know the answer to another one: What does a post-singularity civilization look like? Good luck answering that one.
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