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#355 – David Kipping: Alien Civilizations and Habitable Worlds
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Fermi Paradox
I think we're flirting around this idea of the great filter a little bit here. We're really asking, where is this? Does it lie ahead of us? Nuclear war, maybe imminent,. Or could it be behind us and that it's the advent of technology that is genuinely a rare occurrence in the universe. That explains the Fermi Paradox. But I do ask that we remain open minded until evidence has been collected either way. It remains a consistent apparent contradiction that you can make a very cogent argument as to why you expect life and intelligence to be common in the universe... And yet everything, everything we know about the universe is fully compatible with just us being here.
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