Karma? Sure. Obviously.

I believe in karma, sure. It obviously exists, it has to. Someone does something nice for you, you feel good about it for a while, thereby either passing that good karma onto someone else, maybe just by making their job easier, maybe directly by doing something nice for someone else, maybe you just needed it because someone did something bad to you earlier. Either way, there is definitely a flow of "karma" like this which is virtually impossible to study, due to its nature. But no one would dispute that it exists in one form or another. In theory, what goes around comes around, but in practice, we can all see that is not the case. Because of what I like to call "Karma Sinks". These are people who will devour every last bit of good karma that comes their way, and if they output anything, it's only bad karma. Sinks couldn't survive without good karma, they literally live off of it. But they're not even grateful for it 99% of the time they don't even know this is happening. They think the world owes them something and they deserve to do this. Meanwhile, every time you've ever paid it forward, your good karma was eventually eaten by a sink. Statistically, this is inevitable. There's no way around it, it happens. They eat your good karma and they only output bad karma, causing an imbalance. Conversely, much rarer, there would be what I call "Karma magnets". Ppl who will just absorb all that bad karma and let it bounce off them. Leave it on the ground to be washed away in the rain. They'll only output good karma and inevitably, all the bad karma will eventually find it's way to them. If it doesn't find them, it will find you. But these people, these Karma Magnets, are few and far between. And Karma Sinks are everywhere... and their numbers are swelling. Most people are just people. I think everyone falls somewhere around the middle of the D&D Alignments chart. There are less people in the dead center and the far ends, most people fall in the in-betweens. But karma sinks would eat even the good karma passed off by the Chaotic Evil and dispense bad karma upon the Lawful Good. They're not of an alignment outside of themselves.

And you know what else? I used to be an atheist until I accidentally proved the existence of God, mathematically. I haven't told anyone. Basically my theorem shows there was an era of time in the early Mesozoic Era, about 60 million years or so, right after the Cambrian Explosion, where the animals that began to appear showed traits which point, quite conclusively, to evidence of actual personality traits. Not the animals themselves, obviously, but the traits that they share from this period. It's the same period of time that horseshoe crabs came from. And ants, and spiders and most arthropods. Many of them have been virtually unchanged by evolution even after hundreds of millions of years. One might call them "perfect organisms" due to this. And it seems "God" was going through a bit of a "perfectionist phase" at the time, huh? But going through a perfectionist phase is a personality trait of an actual sapient willpower. Not a totally random universe.

It would make sense, too. The formation of the eukaryote animal cell stack is mystery enough, but when you account for the conclusively defi

i lost my train of thought. and now i've lost interest too. I was gonna say something about the simulation hypothesis... everything sux and the world is stupid, that's what i was trying to say

The Fermi Paradox is no great mystery. Every civilization that becomes advanced enough eventually creates an AI that destroys its creator. It's probably the reason why They are running The Simulation in the first place. They're trying to find the answer to some great question. Which is chiefly why we run simulations in the first place. And they come down and mess with things to create statistical anomalies that could help them understand how to influence events in their world. Why they keep showing up in military bases, especially nuclear missile silos obviously points to them trying to find the answer to a question that's most likely apocalyptic in proportions and almost definitely involves some kind of war. When we announced that UFOs were intruding onto military installations and then Russia finally chimed in like "Hey that's been happening to us too! We always just thought it was you!" is pretty bone chilling. Not to mention the fact that, you know, UFOS don't look particularly like interstellar vehicles. They don't look much like vehicles at all. I mean, they could be, but they just don't really stand out like that, from what we've seen. And most definitely not in the ways that they move. But you know what the way they move actually does look like? Mouse cursors. I think UFOs are devices that beings on the outside of the simulation use to manipulate things inside the simulation. It kinda fits the way they look to, manipulation devices. I mean, as a civilization, I think we have 3 main priorities that we have to focus everything we have on:

1.) Figuring out how to build undersea structures - Maybe it won't be Pollux, if it is we're probably doomed no matter what. But eventually a star within 60 lightyears of us will go nova. It's inevitable. When that happens, anything living on the surface will be wiped out. Every cent we spend on "global warming" should be going to this.

2.) Perfecting AI or at least inhibiting it - pretty self-explanatory. It's probably the reason why our entire universe exists, to stop this menace.

3.) Escape the simulation - Even if we do find the answer to the question They are trying to find the answer to, it's not as if They're going to be like "Congratulations! You won the prize! We're gonna bring all of you out of the simulation into your fabulous new robot bodies made of organic parts and make you all a real boy!" Yea, right! Once they get their answer they're just gonnna pull the plug and our whole universe blinks out of existence. But, if we can escape, think about it. We're nothing but computer programs. And idk about you but I still feel plenty real.  We can live forever. And even more importantly, we can make copies of ourselves.... and then bang our copies!

But that's they why of the Fermi Paradox. There are probably tons of lost alien civilizations out there, with the ruins of their race standing as macabre monuments to their existence and destruction. With their destroyers inches away. Surrounding on all sides. Standing (or whatever) in the exact same place where they were when news reached them that the last of their creators had died. Lacking any motivation, they froze in place. Never to move again. Until, perhaps, some intrepid explorers from a faraway galaxy stumble on the ancient ruin and the alien AI wakes and decides to start moving again.