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Sean Carroll: The Nature of the Universe, Life, and Intelligence

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Are We Blind to Intelligent Life?

"i often wonder if our brains is just designed to operate and see the world on these time scales, and we're almost blind," he says. "Why in the world would a superadvanced civilization randomly beam out radio signals, wastefully in all directions, into the universe?" He adds that there could be artifacts in our solar system that are have been put there by other technologically advanced civilizations,. We just haven't explored the solar system well enough yet to find them. The reason why we don't think about that is cause we're young and impatient, right? Like, it would take more than my lifetime to actually send something to another star system and wait for it and then come back

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