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2018arXiv

Dissolving the Fermi Paradox

Anders Sandberg, Eric Drexler, Toby Ord

The Fermi paradox is the conflict between an expectation of a high {\em ex ante} probability of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe and the apparently lifeless universe we in fact observe.

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