David Kipping

I think all things being equal, you should expect to live at the end of the universe or the middle of the universe or something.

And it makes me think there's something wrong with these red dwarf stars.

Maybe they're just not allowed or the other alternative is a cataclysm.

There's something that happens to the universe itself that makes it totally inhospitable to life in the future.

That's the other way around it.

And that's kind of what this Robin Hanson grabby aliens is trying to do, this loud aliens.

There might be AI comes along.

It just goes berserk.

It just takes over everything.

And you can't live a trillion years from now because there's nothing left.

It's all just AGI at that point.

So biological beings could not emerge then.

So we have to come at the beginning because otherwise we wouldn't be here.

Do you consider it?

I consider it.

It's kind of philosophy rather than science, I'd say.

I did write a paper about it a while ago, and I just kind of pushed back against something Elon Musk said about this.

So he said, in a quote, something like, there's a billion to one chance that we don't live in a simulation.

And he was just sort of running the numbers of sort of, you know, if they run trillions and trillions of simulations, then what's the chance you're in the real one?

The problem with that assumption is that you have to assume it's possible to make lifelike simulations.