Great Filter

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  1. A barrier which prevents intelligent life from developing to a level where it can be detected across interstellar distances.
    — Well, maybe that means that there is — the term, I think it’s from the economist Robin Hanson — that there’s a great filter. That basically, it’s so hard to become a multiplanetary species that even though life is everywhere, every species gets stuck somewhere around where we are: Achieving some things, and then never getting off our initial planet.
  2. The hypothesis that such a barrier exists.
    — While there are plenty of potential explanations and counterarguments for the Fermi paradox, one that has grabbed a lot of attention is known as the Great Filter - the idea that there is some sort of filter that prevents a civilization from becoming advanced enough to traverse the galaxy.

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the Great Filter canonical

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Coined by American economist Robin Hanson in 1996.
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