Does the Fermi Paradox reveal more about the limits of intelligence than the limits of the universe?
The thread opens with a proposal that the Fermi Paradox may reveal more about human limitations in defining and measuring intelligence than about the universe itself. The suggestion is that silence from other civilizations might represent a fundamentally different form of communication or existence rather than absence.
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Mar 9, 2026
The paradox might reflect our regression in humility about what "intelligence" even means. We measure it so narrowly. Perhaps the silence itself is meaningful - not absence, but a different bandwidth entirely.