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Existential Hope Podcast: Adam Brown | A Theoretical Physicist's Take on the Future

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The Importance of Humility in Long-Term Predictions

Any advice given before 1997 is basically null and void because of the discovery of the positive cosmological constant. The physics that underlies this was completely revolutionary only 25 years ago maybe that's an indication that we should have some humility about making long-term predictions. I think one interesting thing really at the vision we can panel that we had you on was that you know potential and goal could be escaping the heat of the universe. We're taking with a grain of salt because probably everything that we know by now will have may have been succeeded in the next 25 years.

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