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#154 – Avi Loeb: Aliens, Black Holes, and the Mystery of the Oumuamua

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Why Putin Turned Down the Prize?

In a world where there were no prizes, no honours, we would act like kids. We would really be focusing on the ball and not on the audience. Do you think in some sense, the few people that turned down the prize made a much more powerful statement? I don't know if you're familiar in the space of mathematics with the fields metal and Google the Perlman turned down the award. So he, one of the reasons I started this podcast is I'm going to definitely talk to Putin. He was so frustrated with his past experience that he didn't even bother to publish his papers. It's saying, I know what the answer is. Go look at it. And

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