Life formed quickly on earth, but earth has so much special going on: iron core, habitable zone, lots of water, three phases of water, good distribution of elements and minerals, oxygenated atmosphere, magnetosphere, lunar shield, lunar tides, Jupiter to clear out junk, etc. etc. We hit the lottery.
And intelligence is an even harder step given how much absurdly longer it took to evolve than basic life.
And technology is probably also a hard step where we had tailwinds like massive oil deposits, smallish gravity well, etc.
But it's also kind of crazy to assume that we should be able to detect the techno signatures of advanced aliens or AIs given our small and limited understanding of the universe.
And intelligence is an even harder step given how much absurdly longer it took to evolve than basic life.
And technology is probably also a hard step where we had tailwinds like massive oil deposits, smallish gravity well, etc.
But it's also kind of crazy to assume that we should be able to detect the techno signatures of advanced aliens or AIs given our small and limited understanding of the universe.