Grabby Aliens

TagLast edit: 18 Mar 2022 7:47 UTC by Yoav Ravid

Grabby Aliens is a theory that explains why humans appeared relatively early in the history of the universe (13.8 billion years after the Big Bang, while the average star will last over five trillion years). It was developed by Robin Hanson, Daniel Martin, Calvin McCarter, and Jonathan Paulson.

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Grabby aliens and Zoo hypothesis

avturchin4 Mar 2021 13:03 UTC

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Anthropics and Fermi: grabby, visible, zoo-keeping, and early aliens

Stuart_Armstrong8 Jul 2021 15:07 UTC

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Robin Hanson’s Grabby Aliens model explained—part 1

Writer22 Sep 2021 18:51 UTC

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(youtu.be)

 Robin Hanson’s Grabby Aliens model explained—part 2

Writer9 Nov 2021 17:43 UTC

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(youtu.be)

Implications of the Grabby Aliens Model

harsimony6 Dec 2021 18:34 UTC

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(harsimony.wordpress.com)

Robin Hanson’s “Humans are Early”

Raemon14 Dec 2021 22:07 UTC

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(www.overcomingbias.com)

Grabby Aliens could be Good, could be Bad

mako yass7 Mar 2022 1:24 UTC

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My current thoughts on the risks from SETI

Matthew Barnett15 Mar 2022 17:18 UTC

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[Question] Is Grabby Aliens built on good anthropic reasoning?

Steven Byrnes17 Mar 2022 14:12 UTC

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Replicating and extending the grabby aliens model

Tristan Cook23 Apr 2022 0:38 UTC

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[Question] How confident are we that there are no Extremely Obvious Aliens?

Logan Zoellner1 May 2022 10:59 UTC

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I just watched the Open C3 Subcommittee Hearing on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UFOs). Here’s a succinct summary and commentary + some background

mako yass18 May 2022 4:15 UTC

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Grabby Animals: Observation-selection effects favor the hypothesis that UAP are animals which consist of the “field-matter”:

avturchin27 May 2022 9:27 UTC

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Could a single alien message destroy us?

Writer and Matthew Barnett

25 Nov 2022 7:32 UTC

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(youtu.be)

AI X-risk is a possible solution to the Fermi Paradox

magic9mushroom30 May 2023 17:42 UTC

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UFO Betting: Put Up or Shut Up

RatsWrongAboutUAP13 Jun 2023 4:05 UTC

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The (short) case for predicting what Aliens value

Jim Buhler20 Jul 2023 15:25 UTC

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