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I wonder if there's some, extremely elevated levels of chaos, almost like catastrophes behind every leap of evolution. Like, you're not gonna have leaps. Like, in in in human societies, we have, like, an Einstein that comes up with a good idea, but i
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Really? Yes. Yes. Yes. There's no heat. Yes. People yeah. If if it was cold, you freeze to death. If it was hot, if there's no air conditioning, you might you might die from heat stroke. Or any kind of tornado, flood, mudslide, I mean, look, when was
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It does seem that the best response to the climate change is not to use less technology, but to to invent better technology and to invent technology that avoids the destructive effects. This is the frontier where you are, and that was the topic of my
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I mean, the predator and prey dynamic is really effective at creating at accelerating evolution and development. It seems like us being able to destroy ourselves is a really powerful way to give us a chance to really get our shit together and to flou
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Something like bacteria, maybe totally different kinds of life. Mhmm. So then I'm just facing with the question. It's like, why have we not clearly seen Yeah. Alien civilizations? And there, the answer I I just I I don't find any great filter answer
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around infinite stars in our galaxy that have been around for vastly longer than we've been around, but we don't see it. And I think that's a question that many scientists and and everyone has wrestled with over the years. I mean, I'm very scared by
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And so those kinds of fears, I think, go with technology, but they tend not to play out in, very real ways. At least all the calculators haven't broken yet. Yeah. Well, look, technology gives you the way. Oh, and here's the other kind of serious obse
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