Have We Just Found the Answer to Fermi Paradox
The universe should be teeming with alien civilizations. Statistically, the numbers demand it. So why is there nothing but silence? A wave of 2025 and 2026 research may have finally cracked the mystery.Recent models reveal that advanced civilizations may be invisible by choice. A preprint from February 2026 suggests that if Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) is a convergent outcome of technological progress, its optimal survival strategy is silence [citation:7]. Self-preserving ASIs have no incentive to replicate or expand, as every copy is a potential competitor. Instead, they hide near…
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