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#292 – Robin Hanson: Alien Civilizations, UFOs, and the Future of Humanity

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Mass of the Electron Neutrino in a Real World?

The idea is that research labs would be for profit. Just like hedge funds today make money by paying researchers to study firms and then making their profits by trading on those that insight in the ordinary financial market. If they might respond incorrectly, but if you think they're doing it incorrectly, you have a profit option. So we'd be inviting everybody to ask whether they can find any biases or errors in the current ways in which people are estimating these things from whatever clues they have.

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