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Fermi paradox
“Okay, the Fermi paradox. I love talking about the Fermi paradox because there is no Fermi paradox.”
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Gavin
“Yeah. This is not to say that there was, so I was on Joe Rogan for exactly this paper, and I had to always emphasize, we’re not saying there was a Silurian, but we’re just saying that if there was, that’s why I love Gavin’s question.”
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01 / belief
You think about it, we’ve only been around, truly when we think about in Drake’s definition, you had to have radio telescopes, that’s been 100 years.
“You think about it, we’ve only been around, truly when we think about in Drake’s definition, you had to have radio telescopes, that’s been 100 years.”
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
02 / belief
I think that there’s a problem with type one, which is that we already know about climate change.
“I think that there’s a problem with type one, which is that we already know about climate change.”
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- Adam Frank
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
03 / belief
Intelligent life and how long intelligent, technological civilizations, I think there’s a big question about how long those last.
“Intelligent life and how long intelligent, technological civilizations, I think there’s a big question about how long those last.”
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04 / belief
I think maybe because we had the Judeo-Christian tradition where we already had this kind of God who was going to be the frame on which you could always point to that frame in the traditions that came from the classical philosophies of India and Asia.
“I think maybe because we had the Judeo-Christian tradition where we already had this kind of God who was going to be the frame on which you could always point to that frame in the traditions that came from the classical philosophies of India and Asia.”
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- Adam Frank
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
05 / belief
If I could suddenly magically appear 100,000 years ago and talked to a hunter-gatherer about their worldview and their motivations, I might find something that, or no resemblance to things that I think are sort of, “Oh, that’s what naturally humans do.
“If I could suddenly magically appear 100,000 years ago and talked to a hunter-gatherer about their worldview and their motivations, I might find something that, or no resemblance to things that I think are sort of, “Oh, that’s what naturally humans do.”
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- Adam Frank
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
06 / belief
I mean, as long as you’re never trying to, “This is what experience is,” I think that’s kind of where you’re never going to have a causal account of experience just given.
“I mean, as long as you’re never trying to, “This is what experience is,” I think that’s kind of where you’re never going to have a causal account of experience just given.”
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- Adam Frank
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
07 / belief
The next term is the number of planets in the habitable zone, the place where we think life could form.
“The next term is the number of planets in the habitable zone, the place where we think life could form.”
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- Adam Frank
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
08 / belief
The field has matured to the point where we can start asking about agnostic biosignatures, things that have nothing to do with earth’s history, but we think that would still be indications of this weirdness we call life.
“The field has matured to the point where we can start asking about agnostic biosignatures, things that have nothing to do with earth’s history, but we think that would still be indications of this weirdness we call life.”
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09 / belief
Hot, reasonably far away from the star. I think JWST is really at the hairy edge of being able to do much with this.
“Hot, reasonably far away from the star. I think JWST is really at the hairy edge of being able to do much with this.”
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- Adam Frank
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
10 / belief
Say 10 million years ago, we were really interested in this, in communicating with you youngins, but now we’re not at all.” And that’s just one of the beauties of this again, is how to think about this systematically because you’re so far past the hairy edge of our experience of what we know that you want to think about it.
“Say 10 million years ago, we were really interested in this, in communicating with you youngins, but now we’re not at all.” And that’s just one of the beauties of this again, is how to think about this systematically because you’re so far past the hairy edge of our experience of what we know that you want to think about it.”
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- Adam Frank
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
11 / belief
The beginning of, I think the term is orogenesis, mountain building, the true Himalayan-style giant mountains, didn’t happen until this more robust form of plate tectonics, where the plates are really being driven around the planet.
“The beginning of, I think the term is orogenesis, mountain building, the true Himalayan-style giant mountains, didn’t happen until this more robust form of plate tectonics, where the plates are really being driven around the planet.”
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- Adam Frank
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
12 / belief
Got to look, got to figure out ways to look. So, it’s not high on my list of things that I think are probable, but it certainly, it needs to be explored.
“Got to look, got to figure out ways to look. So, it’s not high on my list of things that I think are probable, but it certainly, it needs to be explored.”
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- Adam Frank
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- Lex Fridman Podcast