
#279 – Alien Debate: Sara Walker and Lee Cronin
Lex Fridman Podcast
Are We Thinking About Other Aliens?
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Sally Kohn: We humans want to visit, like we're longing to connect with aliens. Why is that? In introspect, that is an obvious thing that we should be like, what are we hoping to understand by meaning aliens? So they am almost certain it. Certain certainly are. But maybe there's a number of classes. There arethe those aliens that have not yet made contact with other aliens, like us. Those aliens have made contact with just one other alien, and maybe it's an anticlimax, an slime, right? And aliens that havemade contact with not just one set of intelligent species, but several. That must be amazing, actually, literally.