Anonymous
08/13/2019 (Tue) 10:50:24
No.6198
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>>6197>I'm not sure.That might be a sign that you should adjust your belief.
>However humans are currently simply shit compared to any entity that is capable of interstellar, let alone intergalactic travel.That's assuming that there is expansionist intelligent extraterrestrial life capable of intersteller/intergalactic travel in the first place. Have you read
https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/03/ssc-journal-club-dissolving-the-fermi-paradox/?I don't think a probability of alien takeover in the next 50 years high enough to be relevant can be justified. I'd put it orders of magnitude lower than a "boring" human extinction by thermonuclear war or supervolcano or infectuous disease or whatever.
It sounds like you're biased towards unpopular countersignaly outcomes.