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stabblesyesterday at 11:42 AM2 repliesview on HN

Reminds me of that solution to Fermi's paradox, that we don't detect signals from extraterrestrial civilizations because they run on a different clock speed.


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dintechyesterday at 11:49 AM

Iain M Banks’ The Algebraist does a great job of covering that territory. If an organism had a lifespan of millions of years, they might perceive time and communication differently to say a house fly or us.

xyzsparetimexyzyesterday at 11:55 AM

:eyeroll: