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#323 - Science & Survival

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Fermi Problem and the Evolution of Intelligence

"We don't know what their motives would be, and we've no idea what their technology would be," he says. "I think I completely agree with you that we're far more likely to have lots and lots of these electronic post-humans but I just think we should be able to look out for them." The Fermi paradox is about the mismatch in timing of the birth of intelligence and technology on any planet - it could possibly show up as soon as a couple hundred years after our own time.

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