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The burden of proof about alien civilisations has shifted: it is now on the pessimists.

Drawn from what Adam Frank said

Subjectoptimism

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optimism Expecting things to go well: whether it is what gets things built, or a bias that forecasts keep paying for.

On the topicWhy be optimistic?under our view: The world is doing better than people feel, and pessimistic forecasts keep losing

What Adam Frank actually said

Adam Frank 22 Dec 2024 Professor of astrophysics at the University of Rochester

But I felt like what this paper showed was that the burden of proof is now on the pessimists. So, that's why we called it the pessimism line. Throughout history, there's been alien pessimists and alien optimists, and they've been yelling at each other, that's all they had to go with.

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↗Adam Frank: Alien Civilizations and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #455youtube.com

22 Dec 2024 · video · 3h 26m · spoken · official transcript

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