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#292 – Robin Hanson: Alien Civilizations, UFOs, and the Future of Humanity
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Elephant in the Room
The elephant in the brain is an important but unacknowledged feature of how our mind works and introspective taboo. It's the Nietzsche if you gaze long to the abyss, the abyss gazes into you. So humans compared to most other animals have norms and this allows us to manage larger groups with our morals and norms about what we should or shouldn't be doing. This is so important to us that we needed to be constantly watching what we were doing in order to make sure we had a good story to avoid norm violations. We need to convince people we are not going around hitting people on purpose. If somebody happens to be at the other end of our fist and their face connects,
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