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 Twitter: https://twitter.com/robinhanson
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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