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Godlike Aliens

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

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I Don't Want Peers Thinking You Would Do These Without Restraint

We cannot rule out that we really do live in a universe created by various inhuman, insane, predatory and or sadistic, godlike entities against which we are utterly helpless. But this does not mean we can just assume a godlike alien has motivations like ours. So when we go on and propose a scenario like these, aliens don't interfere with us because they think it's wrong. We can ask why they think it is. And if the universe we acy would still apply, if they view us as primitives wrecking ar achology, rather than hiding only to show up  and explain what could have happened. If that's their motive, preserving natural ecologies as

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