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#137 – Alex Filippenko: Supernovae, Dark Energy, Aliens & the Expanding Universe

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Is There Something Beyond Just the Bits, the Ones and Zeros to Us?

The hope is that the robots, the AI systems might be able to carry the fire of consciousness or whatever makes us humans like a little drop of whatever makes us human so special. In order to out-compete humans, you better be good at the full picture. Getting close to the speed of light, I think, is not an option either other than for little tiny things like Yuri Milner and others are thinking about this star shot project. That's a very forward-looking thought.

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