These arguments have mostly nothing to do with the Fermi Paradox...
1) The “I Love Lucy” Argument.
2) “Earth, you’ve got to hide your life away…”
3) They aren’t likely to be couch potatoes.
4) To E.T., “warp factor” would be more than just a good name for a rock band.
5) They’d likely forgo the Oscar after-parties.
Of these 5, only item 3 has anything to do with the paradox because it assumes an expansion rate. It's not about detection, by us or them. Forget 4, the calculations were done for sublight migration. It's only about how long even one other intelligent race would take before they were standing on our planet.
They should already be here, but are not. That's the paradox.
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