I feel this line is doing quite a bit of heavy lifting there because this in itself is a solution to fermi's paradox. if a type-2 civilization could 'just die' then we should probably think about possible way in which they could completely (& i mean completely as in the last humans w/o the ability to bear & raise children) be wiped off. the only way I can imagine that besides an AI is a planetary gray goo scenario. but even that does not works for a type-2 civ. & if an AI wipes us out then there is a good chance that the AI itself will be around to take over the leftovers.
The only realistic solution for the paradox IMHO is that intelligence (not life) is really really rare and has happened here on earth with humans by accident. I mean Dinosaurs existed for about 160M years but the did not develop intelligence and we only developed in last couple of million years only.
the other rather handwavy solution I can imagine is that all intelligent civilizations ultimately give up meatspace and evolve into some hybrid quantum-foam dwelling semi-temporal beings because that gives them most amount of 'freedom'.
I feel this line is doing quite a bit of heavy lifting there because this in itself is a solution to fermi's paradox. if a type-2 civilization could 'just die' then we should probably think about possible way in which they could completely (& i mean completely as in the last humans w/o the ability to bear & raise children) be wiped off. the only way I can imagine that besides an AI is a planetary gray goo scenario. but even that does not works for a type-2 civ. & if an AI wipes us out then there is a good chance that the AI itself will be around to take over the leftovers.
The only realistic solution for the paradox IMHO is that intelligence (not life) is really really rare and has happened here on earth with humans by accident. I mean Dinosaurs existed for about 160M years but the did not develop intelligence and we only developed in last couple of million years only.
the other rather handwavy solution I can imagine is that all intelligent civilizations ultimately give up meatspace and evolve into some hybrid quantum-foam dwelling semi-temporal beings because that gives them most amount of 'freedom'.