Looking for aliens who build things is a failure of imagination: the long-lived species we know of do not manipulate their environment at all.

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• Because we do not have good alignment technology, we are choosing to build an alien mind with its own values and gamble on it instead of building a tool. RGRyan Greenblatt11 Aug 2026similar wording
• We will build superintelligence long before we build anything as robust as a bird, because nothing we have built can survive in nature at all. GHGeorge Hotz29 Jun 2023similar wording
• The visiting-aliens story is incoherent: a civilisation with the technology to stay hidden would not keep being spotted. AFAdam Frank22 Dec 2024similar wording
• Every product put into the world removes the need for imagination, because it becomes something anyone can point AI at and copy. CHChip Huyen29 Mar 2026similar wording
• The simplest explanation for why we have never noticed an alien civilization is that there are none out there. SCSean Carroll22 Apr 2024similar wording

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