Existence of Artifacts Pointing towards Extraterrestrial Intelligent Origin

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The speakers discuss a case made by someone regarding the existence of artifacts suggesting extraterrestrial intelligent origin, but express skepticism as other experts dismiss the claims. They also talk about the impact of generative language models on testing and evaluating students' results. Additionally, they ponder the effect of putting cream in coffee on the thermal equilibrium death of the universe.

Welcome to the September 2023 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). We take questions asked by Patreons, whittle them down to a more manageable number -- based primarily on whether I have anything interesting to say about them, not whether the questions themselves are good -- and sometimes group them together if they are about a similar topic. Enjoy!

Blog post with questions and transcript: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2023/09/04/ama-september-2023/

And you can now pre-order The Biggest Ideas in the Universe Vol. 2: Quanta and Fields!

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