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 Bill Joy's dystopian warning did not account for an answer to Fermi's Paradox. From the perspective of the universe at a billion year interval, we don't reach enough complexity to cross the space and time to span civilizations. This also works locally. We could snuff ourselves out earlier, but there is still a limit to complexity. We can leverage AI and deep supply chains, but we will collapse at complexity. The same works for human cognition or AI information loops and resulting hallucinations.