"We Are the Alien Probes" — Roman Yampolskiy
A renowned computer scientist who's spent his career proving AI is mathematically uncontrollable just told me aliens — if they exist — are biological AI von Neumann probes, and that we might be the probes.
Then physics broke his argument.
@RomanYampolskiy is the AI safety researcher who coined the term and put his P(doom) near 99%. We cover: why metal robots lose to biological ones across galactic distances, the panspermia twist that makes humans the experiment, the Jupiter-brain problem that forces any superintelligence to fracture into rival superintelligences at the speed of light, and the simple physics objection no other podcaster has put to him — the first AI was not made with an AI.
The aliens, if they come, are someone else's superintelligence.
⏱️ Timestamps
00:00 — Why aliens would send meat, not metal
01:08 — We are the probes (the panspermia trap)
01:53 — The meteorite older than Earth
03:10 — The objection that broke Roman's argument
04:13 — Why physics eats every superintelligence alive
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