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#292 – Robin Hanson: Alien Civilizations, UFOs, and the Future of Humanity
Lex Fridman Podcast
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I've tried to do analysis of where our distant descendants might go in terms of what are robust features we could predict about our descendants. And so I have two predictions I think I can make pretty solidly. One thing is that we know at the moment that humans discount the future rapidly, roughly a factor of two per generation. We should expect that in the longer run creatures will evolve who don't discount the future. They will care about the long run, and they will therefore not neglect the wrong.
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