>>10870370The modern contrarian trend of calling the Fermi Paradox stupid is really fucking stupid. Almost every time I see someone do this they end up bringing up a "criticism" that was already explicitly addressed in the original formulation of the idea.
Also, not saying you need to believe everything any really smart person comes up with just because they're really smart, but it IS Enrico Fermi we're talking about. And if you find yourself calling Enrico Fermi, the guy half the Standard Model of Elementary Particles is named after, stupid then you might want to slow down and ask yourself whether maybe he had some good points and your own assumptions about them might be the problem.
Honestly I don't get why people don't just stick to the arguments they're partial to instead of trying to go over the top and call a historical peak human genius retarded. By analogy I think it'd be totally reasonable for someone to say they don't enjoy Stanley Kubrick films, but to go on and say he was a shit filmmaker whose cinematic ideas were stupid just makes you sound like you're either really ignorant or else know better but want to use sensationalist language to get more people to respond to you.
