Great Filter + Grabby Aliens — Hanson's Two Contradictory Frameworks
Robin Hanson 1996 + 2021 — The Filter-vs-Visibility Tension
Plain read: The same economist published two cosmological models that say opposite things. One explains why we see nothing (a filter wipes civilizations out).
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