That seems different to me. There's lots of scifi and speculation about contact between civilizations of vastly different technological development. But the idea here is that the expansion of a civilization happens so quickly that it consumes all the resources around it before other civilizations get a chance to exist at all. No malevolence ("superpredators") required.

The probability that a new civilization is born after the light from the expanding one has arrived, but before their colony ships have, is very small, so therefore we should expect that whenever our civilization was born and whatever the benevolence of the aliens, when we look into the sky we should see no sign of them.