Here are the timestamps. Please check out our sponsors to support this podcast. 0:00 - Introduction & sponsor mentions: - Zero Fasting: https://go.zerofasting.com/s/lex-promo to get 30% off annual subscription - LMNT: https://drinkLMNT.com/lex to get free sample pack - Sun Basket: https://sunbasket.com/lex and use code LEX to get $35 off - Pessimists Archive: https://pessimists.co/ 2:31 - Are we alone in the universe? 6:46 - Consciousness 11:23 - Sending digital copies of humans to space 16:01 - Oumuamua 38:04 - Alien space junk 42:03 - What do aliens look like? 59:21 - Drake equation 1:00:23 - Industrial polution from aliens 1:12:15 - UFO sightings 1:20:11 - How long will human civilization last? 1:22:51 - Radio signal from Proxima Centauri 1:26:12 - Breakthrough Starshot project 1:29:11 - Space race 1:34:22 - Human space exploration 1:39:38 - Social media is a threat to society 1:44:26 - Are humans ready for discovering an alien civilization? 1:48:38 - Mayans used astrology to wage war 1:49:53 - Black holes 2:08:43 - Stephen Hawking 2:12:21 - Grigori Perelman 2:16:46 - Theory of everything 2:23:45 - Dark matter 2:26:28 - Advice for young people 2:29:32 - Memories of my father and mother 2:34:01 - Existentialism 2:36:15 - Mortality 2:38:49 - Meaning of life

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idk what it is but i can listen to this man Avi Loeb speak all day

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Rupert Sheldrake would make a great guest on your show

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Superb episode! I love this guy.

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Really great guest! This is awesome!

I usually don't comment because it doesn't make a difference. but I think it is cute how he was talking about pride and how bad it is for science while you here him mentioning israel multiple times. "I went to Israel" "my mom migrated to Israel" I am pretty sure that he knows the history of israel and what israel is doing 24/7 and he knows israel is so proud with all the crimes that is doing so why do you associate yourself with it? Or when he say I was in a farm in israel. Do you know that it is a stolen land from the original people? Where is your pride here why don't you check it out or just virtue signaling to sell your books

Gotta love Avi analogies.

Excellent podcast. Professor Loeb helps us open our eyes to scientific stiffness in the most scientific way. Thank you for hosting him Lex.

It's cute - he said he doesn't read sci-fi in another interview and then he shares sci-fi plots as if they are original.

This fabulous discussion was NOT A waste of time! It's pure joy to be enlightened, captivated, and entertained at the same time. Thank you so much!

Doesn’t mean we’re not special

The meaning of life is to transition into inteligent/sentient life, that if it passes the great barrier, to gather more and more knowledge to the point were it becomes an inorganic inteligent being that can still thrive after the carbon atoms fades away in the far far future. Life's meaning is to have inteligence rise from it and hopefully maintain it. But what do I know, just a random dude that thinks about stupid stuff lol....

Delighted, almost 3 hours of pure intellectual joy.

awesome

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I think its funny how they keep using the ant metaphorically to compare us humans to advanced intelligent aliens. If I saw a 6 foot ant driving, flying, and building weapons of mass destruction? Trust me einstein and even Hawkins would be at full attention

They are here!! Look at my YouTube xxx Everyone is ignoring me but they are here to help us ❤❤❤❤ They are beautiful ❤❤❤❤

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John 14:6 King James Version 6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Science proponents seem to all have that idea that because we're smaller than the universe, it means we're insignificant. We're immense compared to atoms but science proponents dont tell us we should feel super significant. So every time i hear Tyson or Sagan or Nye or Dawkins attempt that "humbling" of humanity i tune out.

Maybe we are copies Of a higher species that spread its seeds to keep existing.

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Fascinating stuff!

Tens of billions of species have existed on earth since the first living organism, but it's the species with the greatest cognitive capacity, "intelligence," that tends to destroying itself and the world. Intelligence is a lethal mutation. Using Fridman's modesty principle, saying we're not special in the universe, we can assume intelligent organisms who have no destroyed themselves is a rarity in the universe

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Hard to be optimistic about the human species when 72 million people in America we're duped enough or prejudice enough to vote for Trump.

You can hear scientists speaking with their egos every time they talk about how stupid Neanderthals were compared to us.

Thanks for the time stamps. So refreshing to listen to an honest brilliant thinker not afraid to do a some of his thinking out loud

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I dont understand how both these ideas inhabit the same intelligent person. - The human race is so unspecial "not that interesting" and hence not worth a visit by aliens. - We should do everything in our power to send a few people to space to become a multi-planetry species, should the rest of humanity face an extinction event, thereby saving humanity. The same uninteresting species so worth saving and preserving, and yet so Monday they're not worth a visit or close observation.

Im so glad i clicked on this video! 😁👍

Hi. Is it possible that black holes are like shredding machines of space they take in all matter gas whatever and after that release dark matter or dark energy or both since we can’t see any of those particles? Sorry for stupid question😀

If we never died and could live long enough to study an alien cultures entire development do you think there would be people who would do it? I don't know about you but personally I would find observing a developing culture to be absolutely fascinating from the outside. I can think of many other examples of why Aliens would be interested in this planet but this one I think shows best why they would be here. I am not saying they are just that there are a bunch of reasons why they could be, for science on the development of a particular species.

Omuamua possible made by gold and other materials that we don't find it anymore since the big global flood of Noah. And it's possible have an civilization of ancient human who leave the earth looong time ago. I maen a mother space ship from the age of Atlantis. And they see you long before you notice them.

get this dude back on here

this is a good one!

Oumuamua has never had a real picture taken more than one pixel. The brightness of this pixel varies in very strange ways. Loeb makes arguments that it's not a rock, it's too unnatural, and might be an alien object like a thin light sail, yet at 16:25 the video editor opened the discussion with an artist's rendition showing a rock. Maybe if that artist's rendition never achieved widespread distribution, people wouldn't be so closed minded to Loeb's idea.

It is refreshing to listen to someone like Avi Loeb talk about the close mindedness of mainstream scientific community, but he is still a mainstream science academic. The UFO phenomenon is stranger, much, much stranger, than what he paints it to be. There are already crystal clear pictures and video of these things, and yet folks don’t take them seriously because the same technology that allows this clarity of image also gives you the tools to fake it. There are thousands of crystal clear fakes, mixed the the genuine ones, so what gives? Stop asking for video/picture proof, because that just wont convince anybody, and get into the raw data. Without saying it, he just dismissed the hundreds of reliable eye witness accounts from military and civilian air industries. So much for a self described martir who is willing to die on the fence for a more open minded mainstream I also disagree with his insistence of our lack of importance. Yes, we are not important in the universal scale, but we sure are an existential crisis on this planet. That aught to amount to something. Why would anyone want to study us? For the same reason why thousands of entomologists have studied ants, the very insects he compares us to. There are entire encyclopedias written about the millions of ant species on the planet, their behavior and importance in maintaining of global ecosystems. People get phDs to become authorities on the smell glands of ants or their sociology. So mr Loeb may probably want to take seriously his humility cool aid and figure out that hey, maybe some phDs from Proxima Centauri might be interested in us after all. Jacques Vallee would be a nice addition to Lex’s rooster of guests on this subject.

Avi > Neil deGrasse Tyson

Loved this episode. Love your channel...More please!

You mention us and space, apes climb to the tops of trees and scream, predators don't.

46:10 Avi is telling dumb Lex to think more logically and less emotionally

14:30 - Lex: "That also makes me sad" .... and the Avi guy says "who cares" _ exactly. Lex is a stupid piece of SH trying to elicit praise and ends up saying stupid pointless things.

Mayan culture still exists my guy.

I'd rather spend the brain capital and finance capital on telescoping the stars than invading desert countries looking for phenomena that we know doesn't exist.

Beautiful 👏

Excellent interview. Very well, thought-out questions. Avi was a great guest. I found his responses causing me pause in order to rationalize the angle I hadn't considered. I enjoyed this podcast so much, that I listened to it in its entirety, twice. I will definitely share this.

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When Avi said the dinosaurs saw the catastrophic event coming and described that it was probably beautiful in their eyes coming down. Not knowing it was their down fall at all. Tragedy but a vision of beauty for them looking at it coming to destroy them. That is DEEP PEOPLE OF OUR PLANET !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WAKE UP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Make sure everyday you enjoy and try to do something good. We are not promised anything!

Black suit on black background? Dummy.

If it was not for Lex who among us would get to hear Avi like this?

A portal created by CERN was disposed into space.... known as oumuamua

Lex, i think you're too young to do this kind of exercise, You spend all your time looking at your notes, it's distressing. You should take courses in journalism, even if i think it's all in vain as far as you're concerned.

Much Respect and many props on your interview Lex . This one was really was refreshing and informative. I'm somewhat of a star gazer and loved the convo with Avi Loeb. He really broke things down to a great level for us humans who may not have a professional background in science ,but pay attention closely . It blew my mind and really made me focus on some other things in a different way. Big ups to open MINDS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Amazing guest for this vid even if I had to listen to it for 3 days to actually have the time to finish it. But the interviewer is the worst one I ever saw and heard. He’s tone of voice is so boring, almost looking uninterested about the subject. Mr. Lex (if that’s you), take notes from your guest- this is how you should talk about this subjects!! Only people who are really passionate about this subject should be allowed to talk. You’re not on this level yet!

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Why do I hate the questions that this dude always asks.... 🤦🏻‍♂️

We would be so advanced as a species if everything didn't revolve around Celebrity Politics. Once anyone gets to a certain level and becomes a celebrity in the mainstream media eye, they mostly choose the hype over the reality.

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BAD BAD arguments this guy is presenting. Laughable in fact.

Now... is the meaning of life.

The reason Oumaumau is rotating or flipping is for gravitational purpose .. That craft is creating gravity within it's own environment.

What mics are used, the audio is soo crisp

Aliens would be interested. In earthlings,, we are psycho,, the entertainment value alone would be like watching married wit( children

Listen to Avi is like listen to Galileo centuries ago when the world punish him because earth was the center of the universe!

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This guy went to joe rogan and gave an less enthusiastic dumb down rushed version of this conversation. Watching this first then that I could see how his heart wasn’t in It like he is here. Here he is talking to a peer vs joe he was talking to a barbaric dude in his perspective lol I’m assuming of course.. I’m a dyslexic high school drop out so I could be very wrong

What's this guy talking about,it took thousands of years for us to progress to living in a box in a high rise building? Obsessed with spending billions on finding life elsewhere and not helping life on our doorstep.

I love the teddy bear! & Wall E :) & interesting subject to do with aliens!

Silly humans, forever conceiving themselves as external and independent to the rest of nature.

This episode was beautiful. Glad I watched it.

Around the 1:16:00 mark, the question of photographic quality of images that record a UFO event comes into play. Being that most of the images come from smartphones .... ! However great the technology that is inside the smartphone is, it is being used and operated by someone that is NOT !! And that results in poor image quality !! One of the major problems is " AUTOFOCUS " !! No matter how many megapixels you have, the image quality will be poor at best. You can not autofocus on a very small object, even at maximum magnification ! And the use of high magnification can make matters worse, by introducing " Camera Shake " !! So... with those two factors, you are assured to have a very poor quality image or video !!! There's a reason why professional's ie; movie makers use tripods and have a second person to operate the focus mechanism of the camera ! During the credits shown at the end of movies, you will normally see somebody with the title of Focus Puller ! Just my $ 0.02 !

He made one mistake, he said find technology ahead of ours to make a fortune...... The better reason would be to improve living for all humans.... NOT to get get rich as that is part of the biggest problem we face

Besides Lex Fridman's excellent channel, John Michael Godier channel Event Horizon, which l have commented extensively on in previous posts, is one l'd encourage anyone with a serious interest in ETI-related issues to subscribe to, alongside Prof. David Kipping's (Dept. of Astronomy, Columbia U) Cool Worlds channel, working in tandem with Event Horizon. By now, Dr. Avi Loeb's (Prof. of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Harvard U.) arguments seriously entertaining the alternative hypothesis that 'Oumuamua's nature and origins are of ETI are well known, given their recent coverage. In this recent interview, he articulates his major premises thereon, which l believe require some (charitable) qualifications and critical (though not skeptical) scrutiny: 1.) His first major premise is largely polemical, and examined from the anthropological, historical, and social epistemology lens of the work of Thomas Kuhn, Imre Lakatos, Larry Laudan, Helen Longino, Bruno Latour, he critiques the values internal to scientific research programmes (Lakatos, Laudan) that reinforce the methodologically conservative character of normal science (Kuhn), which to borrow from one of Kuhn's many analogies of his "paradigm" or disciplinary matrix, have a "searchlight" characteristic which narrowly illuminate problems appropriate to normal science's "puzzle solving" while remaining blind to the surrounding background of anomalies--i.e., problems that cannot be domesticated by normal sciences paradigms. This "belt of auxiliary hypotheses" warding off the onslaught of anomalies (Lakatos) is further reinforced by institutional norms of credentialing and certification (Latour, Laudan) which undermine the basis of transformational criticism (Longino) which examines the very RELEVANCE for relating certain kinds of evidence E to support a given hypothesis H. In this case, for example, Loeb (a' la Longino) criticizes his colleagues for cherry-picking and massaging evidence E to support their null hypothesis ('Omuamua cannot be of ETI origins) whilst remaining blind to other anomalous evidence E' that would support his alternative hypothesis H' (viz., that 'Omuamua is of ETI origins.) 2) ln short, his polemics is an instance of the general problem of how socially coordinated institutional practices like in the case of natural sciences walk that fine line between producing on the one hand theories which can deliver reliable predictions and persuasive explanations (always a matter of degree and defeasability), and on the other hand remain open to novelty, creativity and an ever-increasing scope of explanatory coherence. In short, it is the creative tension between the critical hypothetico-deductive process of hypothesis confirmation, versus the inductive or abductive process of hypothesis generation. 3) ln Old Testament "prophets versus priests" fashion, Loeb wags a finger in frustration against the "priests" of normal science whom he argues, in their retrenched and defensive stance in support of the critical stage of theory confirmation, do so at the expense of the necessary stage of hypothesis generation and creatively abductive reasoning--what should come first temporally but most importantly axiologically (you gotta have bona fide data which includes on a metalevel the buffet table of a variety of hypotheses): The methodological norms of this dialectical process can be at cross-purposes, the "priests" of normal science, incentivized by their methodological conservativism and careerism, may not see an anomaly even if it bites them in the ass. It takes a "prophet" of the likes of Loeb, to show the emperor has no clothes, and confronts the novice and expert alike to view the data with fresh eyes or at least broaden Kuhn's searchlight's scope. 4.) This is an old story well documented by historians and philosophers of science, and though in spirit l support Loeb's narrative, in the letter l qualify his claim as running afoul of a false dilemma. Contra Loeb, appeals to authority ARE logically and epistemically relevant, insofar as expertise enables legitimate authorities to appraise the evidence and data in appropriately methodologically systematic fashions, and draw the appropriate inferences. This does NOT suggest that scientists are in a "special class": Certainly, for example, the field of contemporary astronomy relies indispensably on the contributions of amateur enthusiasts for a host of reasons. But it's simply untrue and misleading for Loeb to dismiss appeals to authority (suitably qualified): This is exactly why for example courts of law hire expert witnesses. Or to put it another way, Loeb's premises are predicated on a fallacy of equivocation: he is confusing inductive appeals to authority with fallacies of illicit authority. Logic 101. A Harvard distinguished scientist of the likes of Loeb should know better. 5.) I'm not merely trying to quibble or introduce red herrings--As I said I support Loeb's arguments in spirit but I take issue with the letter of some of his polemicizing. To add to that, I find it a bit curious that in the same breath he dismisses the data of UFO research. Granted, the quality of such evidence may leave something to be desired--there is a preponderance of evidence of UAPs/UFOs but a lack of clear and compelling cases bespeaking of ETI technology beyond a reasonable doubt. But rather than hide behind weak analogies and blanket statements like "we're not so special, we're just in a typical neighborhood" I would think, by the lights of Loeb's very own claims for his ETI alternative hypothesis for the celestial phenomenona of 'Omuamua, he'd extend it also to terrestrial phenomena of UAPs, UFOs. If nothing else, but for the sake of consistency? I would think with his gadfly stance against his "mainstream" opponents, he would at the very least endorse Prof. Alexander Wendt's arguments for "why we need a serious science of UFOs."

Great speaker and glad to have such a person to profess ideas so fragile and easily corruptible to the collective perception and consensus

Man... I love this kid.... so bright and open minded. He's a sign that, maybe, we're finally headed in the right direction. And, what a stellar guest! (As usual) Thnks for ALL you do, Lex!! Love from Texas! 💕🤠💕

There is radar data on ufo's and thousands of witnesses and hours of footage. You chose to call them believers and the guest chooses to ignore radar. How do they suddenly appear and dissappear off the radar? Cmon geeza get up to speed

I'm on the belief that the universe was created where time doesn't exist and was brought into finite existence at the event horizon of time. The earth was created specifically for Man.

Intelligent Life, meet Lex Fridman!

Yes, there is super intelligent life in the universe. Humans are not the only created/evolved form of intelligence.

This guy contradicts himself. "I'm not into science fiction" then he starts talking about dark matter as if its real. lol But once again, excellent podcast buy Lex.

Smarter than the average bear ! But not a lot smarter... not as smart as a Park Ranger for sure.

Very eloquent speaker, let me guess he is Russian

I could listen to Avi Loeb all day!! His new book is fascinating!!❤️

46:30 🔥 need to be ok to make mistakes

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You guys really have not a dime of faith in the unseen yet you talk quantum all the time......omg you scientists are really STUPID! Yet you speak so articulately as if you got it all figured out!......you are gonna figure out....You did not create yourself......

ugh just go back to the moon and uncover its secrets.. its staring us in the face literally.

Why does Lex always look like he is a little drunk?) Awesome episode!

Planets with life have been discovered, but we don't live in that dimension where information is just handed out.

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These guys are idiots!!!! Science tells us life does not spring from non life. So in their minds if you have a world with water a few chemicals than given enough time life will happen.... This is very ignorant. Time and chance.... A single cell is more advanced than anyone can imagine. Cells have DNA, and this DNA has the entire blue print of the life form. Life is made by God. All these Anti God leftist deny basic Science when they make videos like this.

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This was an amazing conversation! I am a high school art teacher who will definitely share clips of this conversation with my students - very inspiring!