Shermer's Last Law

Shermer's Last Law

Shermer's Last Law is:

"Any sufficiently advanced ETI is indistinguishable from God." [ [http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000A2062-66B1-1C6D-84A9809EC588EF21 Shermer's Last Law By Michael Shermer] , Jan 2002]

It's Michael Shermer's modification of the third law of Arthur C. Clarke's famous three laws. It was first mentioned in Shermer's column "Skeptic" in the January 2002 issue of Scientific American Magazine.

Shermer formulated his law to point out that if we were to make contact with an Extraterrestrial intelligence, they would probably be vastly superior to us. Because on an evolutionary time scale, an Extraterrestrial intelligent species that's only slightly ahead of us biologically could be millions of years ahead of us technologically.

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