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

Rational Animations · explainer · Watch on YouTube

Cosmology & astrophysicsPhilosophy & ethics

What it is

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.

Why Hacker News recommends it

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

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What HN commenters said

  1. “This 12 minute video does a good job of explaining the fairly non intuitive reasoning”

    12 minute explanation of non-intuitive Grabby Aliens reasoning

    BurningFrog, 2022-06 · Recommendation · in “Amino acids found in asteroid samples collected by Japan's Hayabusa2 probe”

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Topics: fermi paradox, robin hanson, great filter, anthropic reasoning, extraterrestrial life

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