Sarah Walker

No, I don't either. So that's kind of my fear. So I'm not sure I'm agreeing with what I say. I'm just saying like this is one sort of conclusion. And, you know, like in my most sort of like – it's interesting because I don't do psychedelic drugs.

But when people describe to me like your thing with the faces and stuff and like I have, you know, had a lot of deep conversations with friends that have done psychedelic drugs for intellectual reasons and otherwise. But I'm always like, oh, it sounds like you're just doing theoretical physics. Like that's what brains do on theoretical physics. Yeah.

But when people describe to me like your thing with the faces and stuff and like I have, you know, had a lot of deep conversations with friends that have done psychedelic drugs for intellectual reasons and otherwise. But I'm always like, oh, it sounds like you're just doing theoretical physics. Like that's what brains do on theoretical physics. Yeah.

But when people describe to me like your thing with the faces and stuff and like I have, you know, had a lot of deep conversations with friends that have done psychedelic drugs for intellectual reasons and otherwise. But I'm always like, oh, it sounds like you're just doing theoretical physics. Like that's what brains do on theoretical physics. Yeah.

So I live in these like really abstract spaces most of the time. But there's also this issue of extinction, right? Like extinction events are basically pinching off an entire like causal structure, the one of these like, I'm going to call them time crystals. I don't like know what, but there's like these very large objects in time pinching off that whole structure from the rest of it.

So I live in these like really abstract spaces most of the time. But there's also this issue of extinction, right? Like extinction events are basically pinching off an entire like causal structure, the one of these like, I'm going to call them time crystals. I don't like know what, but there's like these very large objects in time pinching off that whole structure from the rest of it.

So I live in these like really abstract spaces most of the time. But there's also this issue of extinction, right? Like extinction events are basically pinching off an entire like causal structure, the one of these like, I'm going to call them time crystals. I don't like know what, but there's like these very large objects in time pinching off that whole structure from the rest of it.

And so it's like, if you imagine that sort of same thing in the universe, I, you know, I once thought that sufficiently advanced technologies would look like black holes.

And so it's like, if you imagine that sort of same thing in the universe, I, you know, I once thought that sufficiently advanced technologies would look like black holes.

And so it's like, if you imagine that sort of same thing in the universe, I, you know, I once thought that sufficiently advanced technologies would look like black holes.

Yeah. So there might be lots of aliens out there. Maybe that's an explanation for all the singularities. They're all pinched off causal structures that virtualize their reality and kind of broke off from us.

Yeah. So there might be lots of aliens out there. Maybe that's an explanation for all the singularities. They're all pinched off causal structures that virtualize their reality and kind of broke off from us.

Yeah. So there might be lots of aliens out there. Maybe that's an explanation for all the singularities. They're all pinched off causal structures that virtualize their reality and kind of broke off from us.

Yeah. But the other way I think about it is there is probably hopefully life out there. So like I do work on life detection efforts in the solar system and I'm trying to help with the Habitable Worlds Observatory mission planning right now and working with like the biosignatures team for that, like to think about exoplanet biosignatures. So like I have some optimism that we might find things.

Yeah. But the other way I think about it is there is probably hopefully life out there. So like I do work on life detection efforts in the solar system and I'm trying to help with the Habitable Worlds Observatory mission planning right now and working with like the biosignatures team for that, like to think about exoplanet biosignatures. So like I have some optimism that we might find things.

Yeah. But the other way I think about it is there is probably hopefully life out there. So like I do work on life detection efforts in the solar system and I'm trying to help with the Habitable Worlds Observatory mission planning right now and working with like the biosignatures team for that, like to think about exoplanet biosignatures. So like I have some optimism that we might find things.

But there are the challenges that we don't know the likelihood for life, which is what you were talking about. So if I get to a more grounded discussion, what I'm really interested in doing is trying to solve the origin of life. So we can understand how likely life is out there.

But there are the challenges that we don't know the likelihood for life, which is what you were talking about. So if I get to a more grounded discussion, what I'm really interested in doing is trying to solve the origin of life. So we can understand how likely life is out there.

But there are the challenges that we don't know the likelihood for life, which is what you were talking about. So if I get to a more grounded discussion, what I'm really interested in doing is trying to solve the origin of life. So we can understand how likely life is out there.

So I don't think that the, I think that the problem of discovering alien life and solving the original life are deeply coupled and in fact are one in the same problem. And that the first contact with alien life will actually be in an original life experiment. But that part I'm super interested in. And then there's this other feature that I think about a lot, which is