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- Does all intelligent life face a Great Filter? https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/03/all-by-ourselves-the-great-filter-and-our-attempts-to-find-life/ 5 comments
- The Great Filter Comes for Us All https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-great-filter-comes-for-us-all/ 3 comments
- Is artificial intelligence the great filter? https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576524001772 3 comments
- Academics discover hidden HTTPS SNI filtering system in China's Great Firewall https://therecord.media/academics-discover-hidden-layer-in-chinas-great-firewall/ 8 comments
- The Great Filter – Are We Almost Past It? (1998) https://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/greatfilter.html 174 comments
- On the Great Filter, existential threats, and griefers http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2015/04/on-the-great-filter-existentia.html 43 comments
- Identifying IP address of filtering devices in the Great Firewall of China https://github.com/mothran/mongol 19 comments
- Addressing the Fermi Paradox by identifying The Great Filter through the lens of a Prime Directive and the basic limitations of physics None 6 comments aliens
- WiFilter is a RaspAP install extended with a squidGuard proxy to filter adult content. Great solution for a family, schools and/or public access point https://framagit.org/underxctrl/wifilter 4 comments raspberry_pi
- [2204.07070] Avoiding the Great Filter: Predicting the Timeline for Humanity to Reach Kardashev Type I Civilization https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.07070 107 comments space
- Algorand has step-by-step guides for developers. Filter on language, level, or time to complete. Great way to get technical... http://developer.algorand.org/tutorials/ 23 comments cryptocurrency
- Crazy idea: The Great Filter, Von Neumann Machines, Nukes, NOAA. https://www.reddit.com/r/aliens/comments/nsvhws/crazy_idea_the_great_filter_von_neumann_machines/ 5 comments aliens
- One final "Great Filter" I see rarely mentioned https://www.reddit.com/r/aliens/comments/i8nsgj/one_final_great_filter_i_see_rarely_mentioned/ 22 comments aliens
- Why Alien Life Would Be Our Doom - The Great Filter https://youtu.be/UjtOGPJ0URM 35 comments space
- “Cheating Death in Damascus” Solution to the Fermi Paradox: use a random strategy to escape future Great filter https://philpapers.org/rec/turcdi-2?fbclid=iwar1cjhkly6qa7f5wbi8w1bvzr1wm6ibhm0j1yheapyquqkufqhimlrevqlw 3 comments space
- "My top three Fermi Paradox solutions: a great technological filter lies ahead of us, the aliens are among us, and/or technological civilizations are unlikely." - Serafim Batzoglou, Professor of Computer Science Stanford, 2001–2016. VP of computational Biology, Illumina, 2016-present https://medium.com/the-mission/my-top-three-fermi-paradox-solutions-10d598a86197 5 comments aliens
- The Fermi Paradox analysis indicates the Great Filter is statistically likely to have been in the past http://www.jodrellbank.manchester.ac.uk/media/eps/jodrell-bank-centre-for-astrophysics/news-and-events/2017/uksrn-slides/anders-sandberg---dissolving-fermi-paradox-uksrn.pdf 22 comments space
- Fermi Paradox Great Filters Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A09I0XJKlc 6 comments space
- The Anthropic Principle as an explanation of the Fermi Paradox: Time travel as the "Great Filter" and why we're possibly all about to die. https://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/4hvono/the_anthropic_principle_as_an_explanation_of_the/ 59 comments philosophy
- What is the Great Filter? http://www.anopenedmind.com/what-is-the-great-filter/ 3 comments space
- "iOS engineers with carry privileges all have some sort of polarizing filter on their iPhone displays, such that it greatly decreases viewing angles, thus making it difficult for observers to see the apparently rather significant system-wide UI overhaul" http://daringfireball.net/linked/2013/04/02/apple-scuttlebutt 201 comments apple
- The Great Filter theory suggests humans have already conquered the threat of extinction http://io9.com/5970501/the-great-filter-theory-suggests-humans-have-already-conquered-the-threat-of-extinction 39 comments science
- Mongol.py, a POC to identify the IP addresses of filtering devices in the Great Firewall of China. https://github.com/mothran/mongol 32 comments netsec
- “Child pornography is great,” the man said enthusiastically, “Politicians do not understand file sharing, but they understand child pornography, and they want to filter that to score points with the public." http://falkvinge.net/2012/05/23/cynicism-redefined-why-the-copyright-lobby-loves-child-porn/ 8 comments technology
- “Child pornography is great,” the man said enthusiastically, “Politicians do not understand file sharing, but they understand child pornography, and they want to filter that to score points with the public." http://falkvinge.net/2012/05/23/cynicism-redefined-why-the-copyright-lobby-loves-child-porn/ 224 comments worldnews
- Web filtering: Why a Great British Firewall will be useless. Ed Vaizey's plan to block pornography online is doomed to fail because it simply won't work http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/dec/20/web-filtering-will-not-work 3 comments technology
- Web filtering: Why a Great British Firewall will be useless. Ed Vaizey's plan to block pornography online is doomed to fail because it simply won't work http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/dec/20/web-filtering-will-not-work 4 comments worldnews
- The Great Filter - why we're probably alone in the universe http://hanson.gmu.edu/greatfilter.html 10 comments space
- Great World cup calendar - Filter by country, group, day and city. All in one view. http://www.marca.com/deporte/futbol/mundial/sudafrica-2010/calendario.html 5 comments sports
- 20 ways the debt time-bomb could cause the Great Recession to become the Great Depression II: "I will say it again, gently: A new meltdown is coming. The Great Depression II is coming, soon. And yet, I know your mental filters are working, blocking warnings of a bomb." http://www.marketwatch.com/story/our-debt-time-bomb-is-ready-to-go-ka-boom-2010-02-02?pagenumber=1 11 comments reddit.com
- The Great Porn War. Or the implications of both sides of the Internet Filtering Plan in Oz. http://www.theage.com.au/cgi-bin/common/popupprintarticle.pl?path=/articles/2008/12/18/1229189814605.html 37 comments technology
- A great list of papers on collab filtering / recommender systems http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/theory-edge/message/12462 4 comments reddit.com
- The Functional Programming Triad of Map, Filter and Fold - a homage to SICP's great intro to the triad https://www.slideshare.net/pjschwarz/the-functional-programming-triad-of-map-filter-and-fold 3 comments haskell
- The Great Filter offers a possible solution to the Fermi Paradox —Perhaps we can't find alien civilizations because every species in the cosmos must first clear some universal hurdle before they can travel between stars. https://astronomy.com/news/2020/11/the-great-filter-a-possible-solution-to-the-fermi-paradox 506 comments space
- Great site for browsing books on goodreads using different types of weighted scores and filtering options not available on goodreads https://nextnovelproject.com/search 5 comments books
- China's web-filtering infrastructure, also known as 'the Great Firewall', attacks points in an attempt to hobble foreign websites. http://www.economist.com/news/china/21647656-wave-internet-attacks-points-attempt-hobble-foreign-websites-great-walls-fire 4 comments worldnews
- Copyright lobbyist: "Child pornography is great. Politicians do not understand file sharing, but they understand child pornography, and they want to filter that to score points with the public. Once we get them to filter child pornography, we can get them to extend the block to file sharing." http://torrentfreak.com/the-copyright-lobby-absolutely-loves-child-pornography-110709/ 329 comments politics
- Australian ISPs speak out against government's Great Firewall mandatory content filter http://www.zdnet.com.au/insight/communications/soa/isp-level-content-filtering-won-t-work/0,139023754,339292158,00.htm 3 comments worldnews
- I have a lot of Github repos, and the built-in search tool isn't that great for finding specific ones. So I made a little app that lets you "tag" repos just by editing their Github descriptions, and filter on those tags! http://repotagger.github.io 25 comments programming
- I made a new GEGL filter for Gimp that draws action lines! https://github.com/LinuxBeaver/GEGL-Action-Lines. On Linux you don't even need to compile it; on Windows and Mac you do. This filter is great for Youtube thumbnails. https://github.com/LinuxBeaver/GEGL-Action-Lines 11 comments gimp