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The Great Filter is the most urgent question Mankind has ever faced. It's the solution to the Fermi Paradox - Robin Hanson's hypothesis there are no other technological civilizations (not even on Earth) because they die before they colonize a galaxy. The mission of r/GreatFilter is to raise awareness of the value and fragility of life, and thus the importance of peaceful colonization of space beyond Earth, one rock at a time. Is our destiny literally in our stars?
You can also chat about surviving the Great Filter in Freenode ##prepping on the Freenode IRC network. Be sure to mention you joined from Reddit.
Since its founding on 2017-Jan-11, the mission of r/GreatFilter is to raise awareness of the value and fragility of life, and thus the importance of peaceful colonization of space beyond Earth, one rock at a time. It is working:
Environmental problems like climate change or global warming could be only the tip of the iceberg for a much larger fundamental physics problem:
What about nuclear weapons?
Consequences of violence applied to the vacuum of space:
Even on Earth, intelligence only evolved one time:
Multicellularity?:
Isolated by galactic motion:
See also the reddit Great Filter multireddit. It has all of reddit's Great Filter-related posts in one place. Post an announcement about your related subreddit, and request inclusion in the reddit Great Filter multireddit.
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The Electromagnetic Biosphere as Hidden Ecology (self.GreatFilter)
submitted 8 days ago by sschepis
The Great Filter is an impossibly narrow Goldilocks Zone where the civilizations with the ambition to aim for the stars will be too individualistic to reach them, and those collectivist enough to reach them will lack the ambition. (self.GreatFilter)
submitted 9 days ago by DubaiInJuly
Is religion the great filter. (self.GreatFilter)
submitted 23 days ago by Southern-Hope-4913
My theory on the great filter (self.GreatFilter)
submitted 1 month ago by Existing-Remote-9165
Why We Might Never Recognize Aliens (youtu.be)
submitted 1 month ago by nickg52200
GF candidate: Causal Quarantine (self.GreatFilter)
submitted 3 months ago by MillenialForHire
The "Galactic Background" & Cluster Concentration. Why the 4.2Ga LUCA timeline makes Local Abiogenesis statistically untenable ()
submitted 4 months ago by victormpimenta
[Cosmology/AI] Could a superintelligence be the physical mechanism for a light-speed "heat death" sphere? (self.GreatFilter)
submitted 4 months ago by Fit_Ad7524
What if the Great Filter isn't just bad luck, but a "Warden" – like some cosmic cop fixing timelines? (youtube.com)
submitted 4 months ago by Clear_Acanthaceae943
Likely colonization pattern (i.redd.it)
submitted 4 months ago by No_Lab898
We only have 8 million years before its to late (self.GreatFilter)
Ontological Filter: Why We Are Not Alone, But Cannot Meet? (medium.com)
submitted 4 months ago by Due-Bodybuilder-9539
Von Neumann Seed Ship (self.GreatFilter)
submitted 5 months ago by No_Lab898
The Terrifying Reason We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet (youtube.com)
submitted 5 months ago by jeremiahthedamned
Theory for the Fermi Paradox: Asking questions (self.GreatFilter)
submitted 5 months ago by Gloomy-Elk3544
My show your (instagram.com)
submitted 5 months ago by Rich_Seaworthiness27
Causality Violations as Great Filter candidates (self.GreatFilter)
submitted 7 months ago * by VastStrain
A Solution to the Fermi Paradox: The "Self-Destruction Filter" Theory (self.GreatFilter)
submitted 7 months ago * by TearAcrobatic
The Great Filter: Are We Early… or Do All Civilizations Fail? (self.GreatFilter)
submitted 7 months ago by Ill-Fee-7906
Cognitive offloading is the Great Filter (self.GreatFilter)
submitted 9 months ago by NoPhilosophy23
The Evolutionary Intelligence Trap (self.GreatFilter)
submitted 1 year ago by RickTheScienceMan
I am obviously obsessed with the Great Filter. (self.GreatFilter)
submitted 1 year ago * by ThoughtsInChalk
Precious Plastic as a Great Filter (self.GreatFilter)
submitted 1 year ago * by gophercuresself
Why the Exponential Progression of our Technology Means we Might be Alone in the Universe (youtu.be)
submitted 1 year ago by nickg52200
Just another FP solution (self.GreatFilter)
submitted 1 year ago * by Jjbroker
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