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#292 – Robin Hanson: Alien Civilizations, UFOs, and the Future of Humanity
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Value of Truth and the Pursuit of Truth
The standards you hold yourself to are dependent on the audience you have in mind. So I think those of us who are especially arrogant, especially think that we're really big shot, we were naturally going to pick the big shot audience that we can. We're going to be trying to impress Socrates and Einstein. Is that why you hang out with Kyle Kohnoa and try to convince him and stuff? You might think from the point of view of just making money or having sex or other sorts of things, this is misdirected energy. Trying to impress the very most highest quality minds, that's such a small sample and they can't do much for you anyway.
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