>>11081735If the number of new universes increases by a factor of some impossibly large number every second due the mechanics of the eternal inflation, then the vast, vast majority universes in existence were born recently. There are vastly more universes born one second after ours than were born at the same second as ours.
Now assume, there's a set amount of time for the first intelligent life to form in any one of these universe, (let's say 10 billion years). Pretend that it's the same in all universes down to the second. The first intelligence appears in our universe after exactly 10 billion year and call that moment "second one". The same happens in the exact same second for universes that formed at the same time as ours. Now, one second later - "second two" - you might get some more intelligent lifeforms forming in those same universes maybe just as many as in second one. But consider the wave of universes that formed one second after our own. These are only now reaching the 10 billion year mark and producing their first intelligent lifeforms and there are vastly more of those slightly younger universes - more than all of the atoms in all of the universes that formed one second earlier.
So, first civilisations in those younger universes will always outnumber all the civilisations in older universes. The result is that at any one moment, almost all of the intelligent beings in the eternally inflating multiverse are in the youngest universes that have had time for intelligent life to form. So if we imagine that we are a typically intelligent lifeform, then we're most likely the most common type across the multiverse, which means we're the first to appear in our universe.
This solves the Fermi Paradox and opens the way for the Youngness paradox.
