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    1. Patrick Collison‏Verified account @patrickc Apr 27
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      Patrick Collison Retweeted Eli Dourado

      Reminds me of the Fermi Paradox in the sense that every resolution to this that I can think of is very striking.https://twitter.com/elidourado/status/1254842821787422722 …

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      Eli DouradoVerified account @elidourado
      Navy releases three videos that showcase “unidentified” objects https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/04/navy-releases-three-videos-that-showcase-unidentified-objects/ …
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      Patrick Collison‏Verified account @patrickc Apr 27
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      Perhaps also like the Fermi Paradox in the sense that, despite thinking that, there actually was a mundane resolution: https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.02404 

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        2. Joey Krug‏ @joeykrug Apr 27
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          Can’t believe I’ve never seen this paper! Reading tonight!

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        3. Patrick Collison‏Verified account @patrickc Apr 27
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          It's truly excellent -- super interesting discovery lying in plain sight. Author, @anderssandberg, is also excellent!

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        2. Tobi Lutke  🌳 🌲 🛒 🕹‏Verified account @tobi Apr 27
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          That paper is such a bummer

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        3. Neil Kandalgaonkar‏ @NeilKNet Apr 27
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          It's a bummer if you want to meet aliens, but it's amazing news if you're worried about the Great Filter

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        1. escottkey‏ @escottkey1 Apr 27
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          You think living in an alien AI simulation is mundane?

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        1. Bharath‏ @bkrish_da_ish Apr 27
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          Replying to @patrickc

          "We're the only intelligence in the universe" is hardly a mundane conclusion

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        2. Juan Benet‏ @juanbenet Apr 28
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          Great paper! Would love to see the measures change as our certainties change. And at larger cosmic time scales.

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        3. Juan Benet‏ @juanbenet Apr 28
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          Hey @PBSSpaceTime — fun paper for you to consider covering

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        1. Andrew Ruiz‏ @then_there_was Apr 27
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          Stephen Wolfram has an interesting perspective about the way we define intelligence. Something about the way computations happen all around us, though they’re not particularly meaningful to human sentiments.

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        1. Zac Townsend‏Verified account @ztownsend Apr 27
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          https://www.ted.com/talks/stephen_webb_where_are_all_the_aliens/transcript?language=en … "The moon is just the right size: big but not too big. A "Goldilocks" moon around a "Goldilocks" planet -- a barrier perhaps." "maybe it's the fate of many planets for life to settle at the level of simple cells."

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