It’s fun watching sociologists try to refute the Fermi paradox because 90% of the time it’s like “the idea of Fermi paradox says more about the institutional psychology of the STEM community than it does about the nature of universe because it reveals their unexamined assumptions about the nature of extraterrestrial life, and here’s why”, then proceeds to unwittingly put the commentor’s own unexamined assumptions about the nature of extraterrestrial life on full blast.