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

7307.049 - 7337.281 Lex Fridman

Yeah, but also it is a great acceleration and we also are not good at predicting what that entails if it does keep accelerating. For example, somebody like Eric Weinstein often talks about we under invest in theoretical physics research. basically like we're trying too hard for traditional chemical propulsion on rockets versus like trying to hack physics, sort of warp drives and so on.