#455 – Adam Frank: Alien Civilizations and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life

10017.248 - 10040.332 Lex Fridman

So you actually say that that, from a perspective of detrimental society, that there's a crisis of meaning, and that we respond to that in a way that's counterproductive to these bigger questions, scientific questions. So the three ways, the three responses you mentioned is scientific triumphalism, and then on the other side is rejecting science completely, both on the left and the right, I think.