Humanity was born way ahead of its time. The reason is grabby aliens.
By Rational Animations on YouTube September 22nd, 2021
- aliens
- space
- rationality
- Grabby aliens
- robin hanson
- great filter
- fermi paradox
- are we alone in the universe
- Isaac Arthur
- selection effects
- anthropic reasoning
- bayesian reasoning
- If Loud Aliens Explain Human Earliness Quiet Aliens Are Also Rare
- future of humanity institute
- the elephant in the brain
- Alien
- Animation
- life in the universe
- drake equation
- brandon carter
- hard-steps model
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Considering the hurdles that simple dead matter has to go through before becoming an advanced civilization and that there might be habitable planets lasting trillions of years, humanity looks incredibly early. Very suspiciously so. Robin Hanson, who first came up with the great filter in 1996, offers a compelling explanation: grabby aliens. They are defined as civilizations that 1. expand from their origin planet at a fraction of the speed of light, 2. make significant and visible changes wherever they go, and 3. Last a very long time. Such aliens explain human earliness because they set a deadline for other civilizations to appear. Non-grabby civilizations like ours can only appear early because later, every habitable planet will be taken. This is a selection effect. Plus, grabby civilizations are plausible for many other reasons: life on Earth, and humans, look grabby in many ways. Species, cultures, and organizations tend to expand in new niches and territories when possible, and they tend to modify their environment significantly. In the video, we also delve into the plausibility of space travel. As always, you can support us on: π Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/rationalanimations π€ Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/rationalanimations ββββββββββββββββββββββββββ Twitter: https://twitter.com/RationalAnimat1 ββββββββββββββββββββββββββ Sources and further readings: Robin Hanson's paper on Grabby Aliens - updated since the one shown in the video: https://grabbyaliens.com/paper Grabby Aliens website: https://grabbyaliens.com/ The Great Filter - Are We Almost Past It? https://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/greatfilter.html Note that the date is 1998, not 1996. According to Wikipedia, 1996 is the date of the first version of the paper. ββββββββββββββββββββββββββ Share this video with a friend or on Social Media: https://youtu.be/l3whaviTqqg Playlist with all the animated videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgyX-MnRAuY&list=PL1Nr7ps7wyYo-0AOYd6lfKp-6Czh4p5On If you enjoyed this video help others enjoy it by adding captions in your native language: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6054623?hl=en&v=XIqJNlV1GpA Bitcoin address: 1FX4iepZfh1yuMNYtvYf2CWL7gha8cakuf Ethereum address: 0xDa8463494Dd233c3aBe59bc42Abc4D50823A5f3F ββββββββββββββββββββββββββ BIG thanks to our patrons: Francisco Lillo Marverati ReddChronic Matthew Brooks Luke Freeman Daniel Kass RaphaΓ«l LΓ©vy ββββββββββββββββββββββββββ Music attribution Dreams Become Real by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1500027 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ ββββββββββββββββββββββββββ Narration by Robert Miles: https://www.youtube.com/c/RobertMilesAI ββββββββββββββββββββββββββ Chapters: 0:00 - Overview 1:05 - The question behind the model 1:16 - The hard-steps model 3:16 - Estimating human earliness 6:53 - Grabby aliens explain human earliness 9:17 - Other reasons why grabby aliens are plausible 12:15 - Next video 12:22 - Become a patron!
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