The Great Filter
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The Great Filter hypothesis suggests that there is a barrier or filter that prevents civilizations from becoming interstellar, and that we might have not yet passed this filter. The concept is discussed in the linked essay by Robin Hanson. The hypothesis raises questions about the probability of intelligent life existing elsewhere in the universe.
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