Why Discovering Advanced Alien Life Would Be Bad For Humanity | Robin Hanson
Robin Hanson is a professor at George Mason University and researcher at Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford. He has a doctorate in social science from California Institute of Technology, master's degrees in physics and philosophy from the University of Chicago, and nine years experience as a research programmer, at Lockheed and NASA.
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Robin's Website: https://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson
Grabby Aliens: https://grabbyaliens.com/paper
The Elephant in the Brain: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0197551955
The Age of Em: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0198817827
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Outline
0:00 - Introduction
5:04 - When will machines rule the world?
14:03 - Brain emulations & Westworld
32:40 - Are we in a simulation?
45:24 - The Great Filter
50:48 - Grabby Aliens
1:17:53 - Panspermia
1:23:20 - UFO's
1:49:50 - Rot of world government
2:02:09 - Cryonics
2:16:24 - Individualism & the future of human civilization
2:32:00 - Wealth VS fertility & raising children
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