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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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Big-brained creatures need an oxygen-rich atmosphere because oxygen is so potent for metabolism.
“Big-brained creatures need an oxygen-rich atmosphere because oxygen is so potent for metabolism.”
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- Adam Frank
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
02 / evaluation
What plate tectonics does, because it fosters more vulcanism, is that you’re going to get carbon dioxide pumped into the atmosphere, which warms the planet up and gets you out of the snowball Earth phase.
“What plate tectonics does, because it fosters more vulcanism, is that you’re going to get carbon dioxide pumped into the atmosphere, which warms the planet up and gets you out of the snowball Earth phase.”
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- Adam Frank
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
03 / evaluation
Everybody loves a good probability distribution, and they went a long way with this. But it turns out that the whole thing is flawed because, when you look at it, of course the timescale for the Sun’s evolution and the timescale for the evolution on life are coupled, because the timescale for evolution of the Earth is coupled, is about the same timescale as the evolution of the Sun.
“Everybody loves a good probability distribution, and they went a long way with this. But it turns out that the whole thing is flawed because, when you look at it, of course the timescale for the Sun’s evolution and the timescale for the evolution on life are coupled, because the timescale for evolution of the Earth is coupled, is about the same timescale as the evolution of the Sun.”
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- Adam Frank
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
04 / evaluation
It’s really just something we dreamed up to make the equation to do what we wanted them to do. So, it’s a nice fiction but really right now, we live in this weird moment in history of the great acceleration where the technology we used now is completely different from the technology we used 10 years ago is remarkably different from the technology from 100 years ago.
“It’s really just something we dreamed up to make the equation to do what we wanted them to do. So, it’s a nice fiction but really right now, we live in this weird moment in history of the great acceleration where the technology we used now is completely different from the technology we used 10 years ago is remarkably different from the technology from 100 years ago.”
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- Adam Frank
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
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Okay, the Fermi paradox. I love talking about the Fermi paradox because there is no Fermi paradox.
“Okay, the Fermi paradox. I love talking about the Fermi paradox because there is no Fermi paradox.”
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- Adam Frank
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
06 / evaluation
Part of The Blind Spot is substituting a formal system, a calculus of data for actual experience that that’s more important. And so let me just do, before I go to those three responses, let’s just do the parable of temperature because I think people can… It’ll help them understand what we mean.
“Part of The Blind Spot is substituting a formal system, a calculus of data for actual experience that that’s more important. And so let me just do, before I go to those three responses, let’s just do the parable of temperature because I think people can… It’ll help them understand what we mean.”
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- Adam Frank
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
07 / evaluation
It’s a constellation of ideas that are all really sort of philosophical views. They’re not what science says, but because of the evolution of the history of science and culture got like pin the tail on the donkey, they were sort of pinned on and to tell us that this is what science says.
“It’s a constellation of ideas that are all really sort of philosophical views. They’re not what science says, but because of the evolution of the history of science and culture got like pin the tail on the donkey, they were sort of pinned on and to tell us that this is what science says.”
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- Adam Frank
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
08 / evaluation
Getting basic biology started, I don’t think is hard. It’s still wild, it’s an amazing process that actually I think requires some deep rethinking about how we conceptualize what life is and what life isn’t.
“Getting basic biology started, I don’t think is hard. It’s still wild, it’s an amazing process that actually I think requires some deep rethinking about how we conceptualize what life is and what life isn’t.”
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- Adam Frank
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- Lex Fridman Podcast