{"id":11729,"date":"2025-10-17T18:57:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T22:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/fermis-law\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T18:57:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T22:57:50","slug":"fermis-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/fermis-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Fermi&#8217;s Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/hop.clickbank.net\/?affiliate=infohatch&amp;vendor=J1R2C\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10614 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png\" alt=\"Profit Gen\" width=\"400\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png 400w, https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px-300x163.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Enrico Fermi found a paradox: If there&#8217;s intelligent life on other planets, why haven&#8217;t we heard from them yet?<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the answer is this:<\/p>\n<p>Any civilization sufficiently advanced to travel great distances will have to work in community.<\/p>\n<p>This pro-social behavior, combined with the tech they develop, will inevitably lead to some sort of social media.<\/p>\n<p>And once social media arrives, the civilization will struggle to survive.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m more optimistic than this &#8216;law&#8217; would have you believe, but it&#8217;s worth acknowledging that we become the stories we tell, and the social media algorithms we live with cause us to tell stories we might regret.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not our job to be used by social media, or to become tools of the algorithm.<\/p>\n<p>Hat tip to <a href=\"https:\/\/hughhowey.com\/\">Hugh<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hop.clickbank.net\/?affiliate=infohatch&amp;vendor=J1R2C\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10614 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png\" alt=\"Profit Gen\" width=\"400\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png 400w, https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px-300x163.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enrico Fermi found a paradox: If there&#8217;s intelligent life on other planets, why haven&#8217;t we heard from them yet? Perhaps the answer is this: Any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-purpose"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}