- that the most interesting people to have a conversation with in 100 years will probably host most of their cognition on digital platforms
- that quantum computers are making the first steps into observing and altering things in universes other than our own
- that the fundamental properties of some of those universes are more conducive to computation (and, as a consequence, more attractive to those interesting people) than our own
then it could be that the real answer to the Fermi Paradox is a sort of cosmic brain drain, where the most intelligent minds migrate away from our clumsy universe where computation can only happen by arranging molecules in a certain configuration and applying electrical charge in a specific way, to places where - who knows - the substrate of the universe itself could directly perform the computation you're trying to execute.
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