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Humanity was born way ahead of its time. The reason is grabby aliens.

Rational Animations

Humanity was born way ahead of its time. The reason is grabby aliens.

Rational Animations explains Robin Hanson's grabby aliens model, which argues that humanity looks suspiciously early in cosmic history. Expanding civilizations set a deadline that explains our timing and bears on the Fermi paradox.

Recommended as a short explanation of a non-intuitive anthropic reasoning argument.

3 Hacker News mentions · 2021–2022

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