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Why Alien Life Would be our Doom - The Great Filter

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What it is

A short Kurzgesagt animation explaining the Great Filter, the idea that finding alien life might be bad news because it implies something usually destroys civilizations. It connects the concept to the Fermi paradox.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN links it as a concise, accessible explainer whenever the Fermi paradox or Great Filter comes up, though one commenter criticized its lack of source attribution.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2018, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “Great short video from Kurzgesagt”

    Short Kurzgesagt video on the Great Filter

    joshbaptiste, 2018-02 · Recommendation · in “Life Exists in the Driest Desert on Earth. It Could Exist on Mars, Too”

  2. “There is also a good video from Kurzgesagt explaining the great filter”

    Good video explanation of the Great Filter

    systemEarth, 2023-10 · Recommendation · in “Together We Can Avoid the 'Great Filter' That Ends Advanced Civilizations (2022)”

  3. “Kursgesagt has a good video on this”

    Explains why the galaxy appears uncolonized

    gwd, 2024-10 · Recommendation · in “First images from Euclid are in”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: fermi paradox, great filter, aliens, existential risk, kurzgesagt

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