If the worry about sufficiently developed technology is valid, then how is the intelligence of a living species not its own Great Filter? The technology relates to discoveries that have only recently come to light based on properties of the world. So far there's nothing effectively stopping some other species develops their own culture, then learns writing, then learns how to automate writing by feeding back in its own writing to a computer, just because it's not impossible. Even with the international treaties I'm pessimistic that nuclear proliferation will be reversed.
I sometimes feel like the same qualities that have allowed humanity to progress ensure that progress is fated to never end. If even a hundred people are left on Earth after the nuclear war, one of their descendents thousands of years later could still rediscover nuclear science, even if by first principles, because why wouldn't they? What can stop every last one of us from trying to better ourselves for our own good?
I sometimes feel like the same qualities that have allowed humanity to progress ensure that progress is fated to never end. If even a hundred people are left on Earth after the nuclear war, one of their descendents thousands of years later could still rediscover nuclear science, even if by first principles, because why wouldn't they? What can stop every last one of us from trying to better ourselves for our own good?