Joe Carlsmith

If there are aliens, they might have like quite different tech.

Um, and so maybe like, you know, if, if people meet, you don't expect them to be like, ah, you got your thing.

I got, I am our version.

And so she's like, Whoa, like that thing.

Wow.

So that's like one thing.

Um, if you expect more like ongoing discovery of tech, then, um,

you might also expect like more ongoing change and like upheaval and churn insofar as like technology is one thing that really drives kind of, uh, change in civilization.

Um, so that, that could be another, you know, people sometimes talk about like lock in and there's like, ah, sort of, they envision this kind of point at which civilization is kind of like settled into some structure or equilibrium or something.

Um, and maybe you get less of that if there's, I think that's maybe more about the pace rather than contingency or caps, but that's, um,

that's another factor.

So yeah, I mean, I think, I think it is an interesting, I don't know if it changes the picture fundamentally of like earth civilization.

We still have to make trade offs about how much to invest in research versus acting on our existing knowledge.

Um, but I, you know, I think it has some, some significance.

Yeah, I mean, I sometimes think about this sort of two categories of views about this.

Like there are people who think like, yeah, like the knowledge, like we're almost there and then we've like basically got the picture, right?

uh,

And where the picture is sort of like, yeah, the knowledge is all just totally sitting there.

Yeah.

And it's like, you just have to get to like remote.