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#292 – Robin Hanson: Alien Civilizations, UFOs, and the Future of Humanity
Lex Fridman Podcast
What Is the Catalyst for the Viewquake in Theory?
The remarkable thing about physics and about many other areas of academic intellectual life is that it just seems way over determined. If it hadn't been for Einstein, certainly within a half a century, somebody else would have come up with essentially the same things. So sometimes people are special because of how much longer it would have taken. But I still think we would have gotten roughly to the same place within 50 years.
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