this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2023
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is good news for all those concerned about The Great Filter.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you elaborate on why it's great?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Great Filter - Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter

... that's what the great filter is about. The reason this is good news is that it suggests that the great filter was whatever leap happened after that billion year stagnation, and not, say, immediately ahead of us.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It's also possible that there are multiple filters. So this might be A filter and not THE filter.