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Robin Hanson joins the podcast to explain his theory of grabby aliens and its implications for the future of humanity. Learn more about the theory here: https://grabbyaliens.com Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 00:49 Why should we care about aliens? 05:58 Loud alien civilizations and quiet ...

Start Forging New Worlds: https://www.worldanvil.com/isaac-arthur The new Grabby Aliens model proposes that the Universe may already contain several thousand immense alien empires... and that we may soon be one of them. See the Grabby Aliens Paper & Presentations: https://grabbyaliens.com ...

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In this week's questions and answers show, I talk about supermassive black hole nucleosynthesis, the threat of grabby aliens and why would we ever bother building Von Neumann Probes. 00:00 Start 01:00 Are elements being formed in quasars? 03:50 What will the coverage of the Moon landings be ...

In the previous video, we talked about why humanity seems to have appeared very early in the universe: among the first civilizations that could ever appear. Earliness constitutes a riddle. It makes humanity’s situation seem rather mysterious. Robin Hanson, who introduced the idea of the great ...