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Originally Posted by eburacum45
What does the Great Filter hypothesis tell us about such a situation? Well; there would obviously be a barrier for us to pass to move from the status of zoo exhibits to that of zookeepers. It may be the case that we would not be allowed to ever make that transition. We would remain as exhibits forever - and a filter which could potentially prevent us from passing to a higher status in the Galaxy would exist.
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It tells us nothing?
The hypothesis itself gives no useful information. I'm not sure where you derive the zoo thing from the hypothesis. I guess that comes from the zoo hypothesis, completely.