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Unlocking UAP Mysteries: Economics, Aliens, and The Great Filter | Merged EP0109

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What it is

A 146-minute Merged Podcast episode in which UAP researcher Ryan Graves talks with economist Robin Hanson about UFOs. Topics include the Great Filter, Hanson's grabby aliens model, and the push for more inquiry into UAPs.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN commenters point to it for Hanson's grabby aliens reasoning as an unusual framework for thinking about UFO behavior and intelligent life in the cosmos.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2023, last 2023

What HN commenters said

  1. “Take a few minutes to listen to Prof. Robin Hanson talk on this very thing.”

    Robin Hanson's model of why visitors might appear only fleetingly.

    Simon_O_Rourke, 2023-07 · Recommendation · in “Laniakea Supercluster”

  2. “Grabby Aliens concept by Robin Hanson is an interesting new take on UFOs.”

    Hanson's grabby aliens reasoning about UFO behavior.

    jodrellblank, 2023-09 · Recommendation · in “NASA clears the air: No evidence that UFOs are aliens”

  3. “significantly updated my priors on the likelihood of intelligent, non-human life roaming about the cosmos”

    Hanson on long-lived stars raising odds of intelligent life.

    ricksunny, 2023-11 · Recommendation · in “The most powerful cosmic ray since the Oh-My-God particle puzzles scientists”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: robin hanson, grabby aliens, great filter, uap, fermi paradox

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