With the assumption that interstellar travel is trivial for a sufficiently advanced civilization, Fermi Paradox becomes a true problem. The best solution for Fermi Parafox, in my opinion, is interstellar travel being impossible.
I don't think Dark Forest is possible because consider how different our thought process is from any other life form on Earth. And due to butterfly effect, every civilization's thinking will be completely different. The chances that every civilization will converge their thinking into dark forest seems impossible. Some stupid civilization is bound to broadcast their existence and location. Some other stupid civ might try to control all galaxies using self-replication (exponential growth). So we should have seen some such sign (considering how many alien civs are likely to be there)
Great Filter is another possibility. But it feels unlikely : there are trillions (10^12) of galaxies and trillions (10^12) of planets in each galaxy. So a total of 10^24 (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) planets out there. Consider the number of civilizations. Is it possible for every single advanced civilization to be destroyed by the Great Filter? If it is, then it must be one hell of a filter. I am very excited to find out what it is, if it happens in my lifetime.
I don't think Dark Forest is possible because consider how different our thought process is from any other life form on Earth. And due to butterfly effect, every civilization's thinking will be completely different. The chances that every civilization will converge their thinking into dark forest seems impossible. Some stupid civilization is bound to broadcast their existence and location. Some other stupid civ might try to control all galaxies using self-replication (exponential growth). So we should have seen some such sign (considering how many alien civs are likely to be there)
Great Filter is another possibility. But it feels unlikely : there are trillions (10^12) of galaxies and trillions (10^12) of planets in each galaxy. So a total of 10^24 (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) planets out there. Consider the number of civilizations. Is it possible for every single advanced civilization to be destroyed by the Great Filter? If it is, then it must be one hell of a filter. I am very excited to find out what it is, if it happens in my lifetime.