Lex Fridman, Released on 1/14/21

Avi Loeb is an astrophysicist at Harvard who recently made waves when he said an alien technology visited us in 2017.

Lex Fridman’s videos explore research topics in artificial intelligence, deep learning, autonomous vehicles, and beyond.

OUTLINE:
0:00 – Introduction
2:31 – Are we alone in the universe?
6:46 – Consciousness
11:23 – Sending digital copies of humans to space
16:01 – Oumuamua
38:04 – Alien space junk
42:03 – What do aliens look like?
59:21 – Drake equation
1:00:23 – Industrial polution from aliens
1:12:15 – UFO sightings
1:20:11 – How long will human civilization last?
1:22:51 – Radio signal from Proxima Centauri
1:26:12 – Breakthrough Starshot project
1:29:11 – Space race
1:34:22 – Human space exploration
1:39:38 – Social media is a threat to society
1:44:26 – Are humans ready for discovering an alien civilization?
1:48:38 – Mayans used astrology to wage war
1:49:53 – Black holes
2:08:43 – Stephen Hawking
2:12:21 – Grigori Perelman
2:16:46 – Theory of everything
2:23:45 – Dark matter
2:26:28 – Advice for young people
2:29:32 – Memories of my father and mother
2:34:01 – Existentialism
2:36:15 – Mortality
2:38:49 – Meaning of life

Lex Fridman is a Russian-American YouTuber, podcaster, online public personality, and MIT researcher.

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