Sure but that's what I'd call "normal human temptation." We can resist that. But china has a billion people, and state resources to push them at us. That's not just "take your marriage vows seriously," that's "pray to God to save you from the temptations of Satan."

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BahRamYou 4d ago

Sometimes i think I'm the only nerd on the internet who actually believes that the Fermi paradox is a good paradox. Maybe because I've actually read the papers by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hart%E2%80%93Tipler_conjecture](tipler and hart) who lay out the argument in detail, as opposed to Fermi who just... speculated about it over lunch one day it seems? But since then, every nerd on the internet wants to be "smarter than Fermu" so they lay out their totally original shower thought for how "space is big" or "maybe aliens are all different from humans", with zero awareness of the counter arguments that people have been making since the 70s.

One such argument: stars move. You dont necessarily have to travel at all. If you can wait a few hundred million years (and Earth is 6 billion years old), you can just sit and wait for other stars to come to you. Perhaps accidentally, in the case of panspermia.

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BahRamYou 4d ago

So, I'm mostly just seeing a lot of jokes and memes about this. Which, understandable, it's a juicy scandal.

But one semi serious response that I saw on Twitter got me thinking. Is this just an inherent weakness in all men? An unpatchable security flaw? We're already vulnerable to just normal human temptation. What are we supposed to do when foreign governments target us with professional seductresses? Should all men in critical positions get castrated for national security?

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