Avi Loeb

It can create smaller cars for you to use.

That's amazing.

Like we can't even imagine building a car that will self-replicate.

And nature did it.

So to me, we are at the infancy of understanding how much better we can go than AI.

Because if nature did it out of random processes and created such a brain on 20 watts, and we are struggling with gigawatts to imitate it, there must be a better path forward that is similar to biology, but much more powerful than random processes that happened on earth.

And also self-replicating.

So if you send a spacecraft to a planet, instead of sending many, you send just one that replicates and then sends more and so forth.

And by the way, that was a notion that von Neumann had a year before the DNA was discovered.

So he realized that it could be done technologically

before scientists realized that, you know, how nature does it.

And I'm really at all about, you know, I'm not just modest because of the vast expanses of space and time in the universe.

And you know, the real estate on earth is such a small amount compared to real estate out there.

You know, we have real estate professionals now mediating peace in the Middle East.

But, you know, they deal with real estate on this rock that is three millions of the mass of the sun.

Just tiny rock.

How much real estate there is in the cosmos?

Just think about the realtors out there.

And the point is, it's not just that.

It's the fact that, you know, that we should be modest because many of those things existed before we came to exist, before the earth was formed.