Fermi's Paradox: If extraterrestrial intelligence is common, why haven't we met any smart aliens?
"I suggest a different, even darker solution to [Fermi's] Paradox. Basically, I
think the aliens don’t blow themselves up; they just get addicted to
computer games. They forget to send radio signals or colonize space
because they’re too busy with runaway consumerism and virtual-reality
narcissism. They don’t need Sentinels to enslave them in a Matrix; they
do it to themselves, just as we are doing today. Once they turn inwards
to chase their shiny pennies of pleasure, they lose the cosmic plot.
They become like a self-stimulating rat, pressing a bar to deliver
electricity to its brain’s ventral tegmental area, which stimulates its
nucleus accumbens to release dopamine, which feels…ever so good."
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