Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedSean Carroll: belief
22 Apr 2024 Lex Fridman Podcast #428 – Sean Carroll: General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Black Holes & Aliens
“I have no idea. But I think your intuition is right that it would’ve been easy for there to be lots of civilizations then we would’ve noticed them already and we haven’t.”
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- Speaker
- Sean Carroll
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- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 22 Apr 2024
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
Transcript context
…Are there more intelligent alien civilization than there are supermassive black holes? Yeah. I have no idea. But I think your intuition is right that it would’ve been easy for there to be lots of civilizations then we would’ve noticed them already and we haven’t. Absolutely the simplest explanation for why we haven’t is that they’re not there. Yeah. I just think it’s so easy to make them though. There must be … I understand that’s the simplest explanation. But also ……
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