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#292 – Robin Hanson: Alien Civilizations, UFOs, and the Future of Humanity
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is There a Status Hierarchy?
The prototypical UFO observation is a shiny, big object in the sky that has very rapid acceleration and no apparent surfaces for using air to manipulate at speed. If they just wanted to talk to our computer systems, they could move some sort of little probe that connects to a wire and reads and sends bits there. They don't need a shiny thing flying in the sky. But I don't think they would be looking for the right way to communicate. That's actually a very... No, what a hard advance you are. It's very difficult to do but that's puzzling.
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