Agent Provocateur
Sep 4, 2018 · 1 min read

Hmmm, let's think of the odds of this happening for a minute.

To the best of our knowledge, it took nature over 10 billion years to come up with life on our planet; then another 3.8 billion years for this life to become sentient; then another few thousand years for this sentient life to become technologically advanced. The process is clearly accelerating — until less than 100 years ago this technologically advanced, sentient life form didn't even know what galaxies were. And now its technological prowess is advancing so fast that nobody really knows what it will be able to do in the next few dozen years.

Looking at events from this perspective we realise that even one hundred years can make a huge difference in the level of understanding and technological advancement of a sentient species.

Now, what are the chances that a process spanning billions of years will happen and develop within a precision of a few decades so that the worries of the target civilisation are the same as ours?

N'est-il pas déconcertant, le anthropocentrisme?!

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