257: Robin Hanson - "Grabby Aliens", Part 1
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🗓️ 25 July 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
**Part 1 of 2**
Andy is here for a fascinating conversation with Professor Robin Hanson, an academic & intellectual look at Alien civilisations ,they discuss;
Grabby Aliens
Academic approach to aliens & UFO's
Loud v quiet civilisations
How long till we take our place amongst the stars?
Independent efforts to find other intelligent life
Check Robins site for paper & blog https://grabbyaliens.com/
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| 0:34.0 | Hi everyone and welcome back to that UFO podcast. My name is Andy and delighted to be joined on the show today by a professor at George Mason University and researcher at the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford. |
| 0:50.0 | Mr Robin Hanson Robin, welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:53.0 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:54.0 | Very much looking forward to this and ever so slightly nervous, Robin, as I mentioned before, I've listened |
| 0:59.5 | to you run a few with Lex Friedman twice and some of that certainly went over my head. I think I got the |
| 1:05.6 | gist of most of it but I'm looking forward to the conversation and seeing where we go with it. |
| 1:09.8 | Before we get to that I want to take you back and ask you what were some your earliest memories of the the subject of aliens |
| 1:16.6 | UFOs? Well, UFOs haven't been much of my life at all. Obviously I've always enjoyed science fiction, |
| 1:24.4 | so the idea of aliens has been part of that. |
| 1:27.8 | But that's usually in the context of some much larger timescales |
| 1:31.4 | where our descendants might meet aliens in the distant future. |
| 1:36.0 | So, you know, I've never expected to meet aliens myself, nor have I paid that much attention in my lifetime to those who said they had. |
| 1:46.9 | So it was very much a passing interest that obviously we're going to get to the point of talking |
| 1:50.8 | about having the website, the papers and your interest that you've recently been on Lex Friedman and millions of people are seeing you talk about alien civilizations, is it something that you've really picked up in an academic form as you've kind of grown in years. |
| 2:06.3 | So one of my main intellectual strategies has just to look for important neglected topics. |
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