David Kipping

And this is called fact A, Hart's fact A. This clearly hasn't happened.

That's one thing we know for sure.

And the other thing we know for sure is that when we look out, we don't see, you know, we look at these stars like Stevenson and Proxima Centauri, we don't see engineering on them.

as far as we can tell.

We don't see stars which are obviously got megastructures around them, obviously been engineered in weird ways.

Yeah, I mean, huge structures could be built around these things like Dyson spheres, and people have talked about doing it for messaging.

You could put sheets of material that were planet-sized, and as they block light from the star, that would create a Morse code.

You could actually message people

For billions of years, you would just build these stable sheets of material, and they would just orbit around, no power system required, right?

An orbit doesn't require power.

It would just orbit around for billions of years, and every time an eclipse is the star, there could be some intricate pattern of pulses.

And so that way you could communicate for a very long time.

You know, we thought of all these wild ideas, and we just don't see any of that.

So it does seem, as far as we can tell, that the universe is completely natural.

And that is mind-blowing because you're right.

Like it seems if it's happened here, why the hell shouldn't it happen elsewhere?

Why isn't someone else got AI going crazy?

Why hasn't someone else gone even further than that, gone to the next level?

And the thing that really drives me wild with this is the Earth is like a paradise.

If you look at these other stars, these other planets, the Earth is unusual.