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

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Is the Universe Filling Up Soon?

If the universe stays empty and you're waiting for one life civilization to pop up, then it's gonna happen very late, much later than now. And if you look at Earth, the way things happen on Earth, it happened much earlier than expected according to this model. So we got it early compared to the prediction with an assumption that's wrong. That's so that's how we do a lot of, you know, theoretical analysis. You have a model that makes a prediction that's wrong, then that helps you reject that model.

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