Cooperative Evolutionary Pressure and Diminishing Returns Might Explain the Fermi Paradox: On What Super-AIs Are Like

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Main Author:	Vallstrom, Daniel
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2024
Subjects:	Physics and Society Artificial Intelligence
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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