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#191 – Daniel Schmachtenberger: Steering Civilization Away from Self-Destruction
Lex Fridman Podcast
Are We Going to Survive Long?
Hitchhiker's Guide has an estimation about how much of a risk this particular thing poses to the rest of the galaxy. So their estimation would be that this species of ant-like creatures is not going to survive long. The fundamental nature of their behavior from a game theory perspective has not really changed. They have not learned in any fundamental way how to control properly incentivize or properly do the mechanism design of games to ensure long-term survival. And then they move on to another planet. Do you think there's some number or perhaps a very, very large number of intelligent ant-civilizations out there? Yes. It would be hard to think otherwise.
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