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#292 – Robin Hanson: Alien Civilizations, UFOs, and the Future of Humanity
Lex Fridman Podcast
What Is the Power Law?
The chance of cancer appearing in the lifetime also goes as a power law, this power of the number of mutations that's required for any one cell in your body to become cancerous. So longer you live, the likely right you are to have cancer cells and it's power is also roughly six. That is, the chance of you getting cancer is roughly the power of six of the time you've been since you were born. And so we're the result of this unlikely chain of successes. It's actually a lot like cancer. What is the x, what is n? Yes, the number of hard steps.
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