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What’s your best hypothesis for the Fermi Paradox?

Skeptical optimist, prediction market enjoyer

The Great Filter theory, specifically what is called the Upper Income Trap -- once a civilization reaches a certain standard of living, approximately that of present day upper-middle-class Westerners, it stops reproducing and then dies out.

I dont see why this would be the case if it population shrink into oblivion. Either start reproduction, either clone, either solve aging

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I am very curious to see what happens when we have embryos from stem cells + artificial gestation environments.