"The scariest answer to the Fermi paradox is that there are no aliens at all," he says. "I don't think you understand how important history is to give you a definition of who you are and then that informs all of your decisions" He adds: "If we're a simulation, which I think we are, billion to one odds we are, then being alone would be the normal state"

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