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1* GeniusBonus: During his InYourNatureToDestroyYourselves speech, Gabriel mentions the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter Filter]]. The concept is related to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox the Fermi Paradox,]] the concept that, mathematically speaking, the conditions that gave rise to life on Earth shouldn't be particularly uncommon, and the galaxy should be about as full of alien life as Star Trek, but if this is so, why have we seen no evidence of extraterrestrial civilizations? One of the proposed answers is that a "Great Filter" exists, an event along the course of normal technological development that ends up destroying most civilizations before they can reach the point of space colonization.

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