Keller Jordan: If the Fermi paradox is fake, your pDoom should drop from 99% to under 80%
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-09-12
Keller Jordan argued that if the Fermi paradox is itself fake — "another 20th century pseudoscience" — it should lower one's pDoom from >99% to <80%, making it a bigger cause for celebration than the unaligned-RSI nightmare is for consternation. He joked that someone should inform 100 million normies of the good news.
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