{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "My best guess is transhumanism (or transalienism) is the answer to the Fermi paradox. That physical forms are so ill-suited to...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/117680784068/", "html": "<p>My best guess is transhumanism (or transalienism) is the answer to the Fermi paradox. That physical forms are so ill-suited to interstellar travel that galactic civilization is only viable in species that evolve away from them.</p>\n\n<p>I like to think there are aliens out there that started as animal-equivalents but are now algorithms. Like, not even algorithms running on giant gas-cloud supercomputers, not even algorithms being beamed through space as radio waves, just the fact of algorithms.</p>\n\n<p>By analogy to things like HeLa and CTVT, I could totally imagine that Maxwell&rsquo;s equations or the Planck constant began as something like humans. Or that the ultimate progenitor race was time, and the Big Bang was something like the Cambrian explosion.</p>"}