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#154 – Avi Loeb: Aliens, Black Holes, and the Mystery of the Oumuamua

Lex Fridman Podcast

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We Are Not the Sharpest Cookie in the Jar

We are probably not the sharpest cookie in the jar. I would think that we are sort of middle of the road typical forms of life. And that's why nobody pays attention to us. If you roll the dice billions of times just within the Milky Way galaxy and then you have tens of billions of galaxies like itWithin the observable volume of the universe, it would be extremely arrogant to think that we're special. So let me ask, are we alone? That's an excellent question.

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