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Although the current state of affairs seems to be that we are hellbent on activating said filter and we‘ll be long dead (at least as a technological civilisation) by the time anyone else receives our current radio transmissions.



Nobody can ever receive most of our current radio transmissions. They drop below the noise floor just out of our stellar neighborhood.


True... but odds are also that IF civ's get near to Kardashev 1, there's a good chance they ALSO build AI's, which even if they died out, the AI would live on being synthetic and nearly immortal.

I think it's odd we don't see more synthetic ai type signs of life out there, at least.

I think if we do kill ourselves we might have AI before then to at least broadcast to the universe that we were here.




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