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Contact Inequality -- First Contact Will Likely Be With An Older Civilization
David Kipping, Adam Frank, Caleb Scharf
First contact with another civilization, or simply another intelligence of some kind, will likely be quite different depending on whether that intelligence is more or less advanced…
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A Bayesian Approach to the Simulation Argument
David Kipping
The Simulation Argument posed by Bostrom (2003) suggests that we may be living inside a sophisticated computer simulation. If post-human civilizations eventually have both the capa…