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#269 – Lee Cronin: Origin of Life, Aliens, Complexity, and Consciousness
Lex Fridman Podcast
Are You Going to Travel 20 Light Years to Go and Pet a Cat?
Thermeparadox: We don't actually have abstraction. The analogy is that the aliens are not going to talk to us because we, and I'm using calculus as an analogy for abstraction. It would be so counterproductive interacting with intelligent alien species that it would cause more angst for human race. So they'll probably, they more care about is an interesting for them. Maybe there's a way to pet the cat in this analogy.
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