Revisiting the Kardashev Scale of Civilizations

[Airbrush]

Any fans of Anton Petrov?  In his Youtube he says he found a study critical of the Kardashev Scale.  I cannot find the paper.  Anyone heard of this?  This is about a qualitative approach to understanding levels of ETIs rather than the quantitative Kardashev Scale. Below is what I paraphrased from Anton's excellent video.

"According to this study, advanced civilizations could be anywhere in the universe, our galaxy, even close to us.  They would be indistinguishable from their natural environment, so we would not detect them.  Super-intelligent alien life would look to us like ordinary matter.  We would not know what to look for.  We cannot imagine what we can discover about them.  They could easily manipulate the environment around themselves using extremely efficient methods without need for megastructures.  SETI would definitely fail in their search for such an ETI."

"This explains the Fermi Paradox, we don’t see anyone out there by design.  Complexity does not make you easier to detect.  They don’t need megastructures.  Rather they blend into the background."

 

 

Edited December 11, 2022 by Airbrush