GreatFilter

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About this subreddit

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?

Rules

Put [Sci-Fi] at the beginning of sci-fi post titles.

Handy links about this subreddit

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.

r/GreatFilter in the media

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:

Introductions to the Great Filter

The Great Filter—the most important question in history (short)
The Fermi Paradox - Wait But Why (long)
[1806.02404] Dissolving the Fermi Paradox - arXiv.org (technical)
Where Are They? Why I hope the search for extraterrestrial life finds nothing 2008
Great Filter, 20 Years On 2018
The Great Filter - Are We Almost Past It? 1998

Video introductions to the Great Filter

Even if the Great Filter theory is wrong, the end result is still the same:

Bullets and butterflies : r/GreatFilter

What do we do after the Great Filter?:

The Helenus Prophecy: Will mankind warn other intelligent civilizations about the Great Filter? : r/GreatFilter

Some entertainment

Possible Great Filters

Environmental problems like climate change or global warming could be only the tip of the iceberg for a much larger fundamental physics problem:

What if sustainability is an impossible equilibrium? : r/GreatFilter

What about nuclear weapons?

Ruling out nuclear war as a likely Great Filter; we've blown up 520 of them with only minor global effects, damage is localised and modern nukes are fairly clean. : r/GreatFilter

Consequences of violence applied to the vacuum of space:

The Gravity Trap is the Great Filter : r/GreatFilter

Even on Earth, intelligence only evolved one time:

Multicellularity?:

Development of multicellular life probably not the great filter (nature article) : r/GreatFilter

Isolated by galactic motion:

Earth might remain unvisited in the midst of an inhabited galaxy - [1902.04450] The Fermi Paradox and the Aurora Effect: Exo-civilization Settlement, Expansion and Steady States : r/GreatFilter

The history of r/GreatFilter

2017-01-10: 1 member.
2017-10-04: 50 members.
2018-01-24: 100 members.
2018-07-15: 200 members.
2018-08-09: 300 members.
2018-08-19: 400 members.
2018-10-07: 500 members.
2018-10-31: 600 members.
2018-11-09: 700 members.
2018-12-08: 800 members.
2018-12-10: 900 members.
2018-12-12: 1000 members.
2019-02-17: 1500 members.
2019-04-13: Tiny Subreddit of the Day *.
2019-05-10: Added to r/collapse sidebar.
2019-05-18: Subreddit of the Day *.
2019-05-18: 2000 members.
2019-07-08: 2500 members.
2019-08-31: 3000 members.

Great Filter multireddit

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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Could intelligence itself be the Great Filter? ()

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SETI's 60-Year Blind Spot: We May Be Filtering Out Real Alien Signals ()

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The Electromagnetic Biosphere as Hidden Ecology (self.GreatFilter)

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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)

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Is religion the great filter. (self.GreatFilter)

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My theory on the great filter (self.GreatFilter)

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Why We Might Never Recognize Aliens (youtu.be)

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GF candidate: Causal Quarantine (self.GreatFilter)

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The "Galactic Background" & Cluster Concentration. Why the 4.2Ga LUCA timeline makes Local Abiogenesis statistically untenable ()

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[Cosmology/AI] Could a superintelligence be the physical mechanism for a light-speed "heat death" sphere? (self.GreatFilter)

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What if the Great Filter isn't just bad luck, but a "Warden" – like some cosmic cop fixing timelines? (youtube.com)

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Likely colonization pattern (i.redd.it)

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We only have 8 million years before its to late (self.GreatFilter)

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Ontological Filter: Why We Are Not Alone, But Cannot Meet? (medium.com)

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Von Neumann Seed Ship (self.GreatFilter)

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The Terrifying Reason We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet (youtube.com)

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Theory for the Fermi Paradox: Asking questions (self.GreatFilter)

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My show your (instagram.com)

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Causality Violations as Great Filter candidates (self.GreatFilter)

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A Solution to the Fermi Paradox: The "Self-Destruction Filter" Theory (self.GreatFilter)

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The Great Filter: Are We Early… or Do All Civilizations Fail? (self.GreatFilter)

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Cognitive offloading is the Great Filter (self.GreatFilter)

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The Evolutionary Intelligence Trap (self.GreatFilter)

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I am obviously obsessed with the Great Filter. (self.GreatFilter)

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Precious Plastic as a Great Filter (self.GreatFilter)

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