Our universe is full of superintelligent alien civilizations | Jeffrey Shainline and Lex Fridman

I now come to lex podcast for what I use to go to the JRE for. Makes me laugh. Remeber the good times I guess. Lex is a bit dry but I think his humor hits home for me more than joe overall.

I like that Lex couldn't grasp the idea that his tie would make it easier to choke him, but discusses black holes and the universe in depth.

Does a deep-sea crab know that a shallow crab even exists? At the boundaries of every life on earth lies another life...why when we ourselves have found the minute(microscopic) would we believe the massive or superintelligent can't also exist on the borders of our lives?

I’d be willing to bet the universe is absolutely crawling with life all over the place. We’re just not able to discover any of it yet

So much intellect and so little ego on display. So rare and such a treat! Thank you.

This helps restore my faith in people. But also a little sad that I haven't made an effort to find friends with whom I can have this kind of fulfilling conversation. Life is weird. Podcasts are weird. And none of us know where we truly fit in this odd expression of the universe that we consider "existing"

I'm reminded of one of my favorite Onion headlines: "Aliens mourn as final Cheers episode reaches alpha centauri"

Lex fills the JRE void quite nicely.

We are proof that intelligent beings can exist in our universe. If it can happen once it can happen numerous times. If not now but in the past, present and or future. Like a garden, if a flower can grow given the right conditions in a corner of the garden it can potentially grow in another part of the garden.

As a charter member of Men in Black, Lex must constantly update his alien database. ( Always great stuff, sir!)

"The universe is a dark forest. Every civilization is an armed hunter stalking through the trees like a ghost, gently pushing aside branches that block the path and trying to tread without sound. Even breathing is done with care. The hunter has to be careful, because everywhere in the forest are stealthy hunters like him. If he finds another life—another hunter, angel, or a demon, a delicate infant to tottering old man, a fairy or demigod—there’s only one thing he can do: open fire and eliminate them." ~The Dark Forest, by Liu Cixin~ - All life desires to stay alive. - There is no way to know if other lifeforms can or will destroy you if given a chance. - Lacking assurances, the safest option for any species is to annihilate other life forms before they have a chance to do the same.

I'm 40, I wish something like these YouTube vids/podcasts were around 25 yrs ago to get my interest! If these were available, there's a high probability😂 I would have studied physics or similar. Thanks Lex!!!

just let this sink in comrades: "we're only on the third generation of stars.." if ever there was existential context put into a sentence, that was it for me right there.

This lex dude always sounds like he’s just done the biggest bong with the best weed this side of Mississippi

Another amazing interview! I love your channel. The more i watch, the more i like!!!

Really looking forward to watching this entire podcast!!

I could get baked and listen to these two all day

I didn’t know Michael Rappaport was so smart

Very interesting and a very very healthy talk and at times, debate. Great work!

I find the cynicism of astronomers when it comes to other intelligent life being out there so perplexing. They say billions of years is nothing, but a few hundred years using telescopes with no results = there’s probably not much/if anything out there and we must be special.