- The filter is ahead us
- There is no filter
- The filter is behind us, but ahead of the other planet
- Both planets have successfully got past the filter
We'll still be debating :). Then we'll go crazy trying find evidence of life in more planets.
- We're one of the first nearby and we're going to help build a filter
The various AI we give birth to over the next two centuries are going to dominate several galaxies. There are many filters - competing standards - throughout the universe, our galaxy doesn't yet have one. Humans will cease to exist as we think of them now, within those two centuries (and not due to climate change or any other similar event).
if we detect life so near to us and _yet_ we still have yet to encounter life from another planet means there's likely still _some_ kind of filter. So I don't think the likelihood of no filter is high if we detect life