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What If the Dinosaurs Just Moved Somewhere Else?

Recorded in Chinese

A Cantonese podcast’s speculative comparison of humans and AI sends my imagination toward space. I also reflect on the host’s appeal and wish for a conversation between him and Jonathan Bi.

00:01 Today I want to share something

00:03 I heard on a podcast

00:06 that I found very interesting.

00:11 The guest on that episode said,

00:16 why is Elon Musk working on spaceflight?

00:22 Because our relationship to AI

00:27 may be like dinosaurs' relationship to us.

00:32 Before humanity goes extinct,

00:38 Musk's SpaceX program

00:40 could send humans to another planet.

00:45 Then I started wondering:

00:47 if this

00:50 wildly imaginative idea

00:52 could really become reality,

00:56 would that mean

00:58 dinosaurs did not actually go extinct?

01:01 Maybe they only went somewhere

01:04 humans do not know about,

01:06 where their species continues to survive.

01:09 Could that possibility exist?

01:12 Some scientists today may also be

01:15 looking for similar traces.

01:17 But there does not seem to be a firm conclusion

01:20 that dinosaurs are extinct.

01:23 There are also

01:27 rumors in society

01:31 about whether dragons exist,

01:32 with different kinds of speculation

01:36 or so-called sightings in the sky.

01:41 I do not know

01:43 where that whole idea came from,

01:46 but I still find it interesting.

01:49 And then...

01:52 Right.

01:53 That is one thing

01:55 I recently heard on a podcast and found fascinating.

01:59 The episode came from

02:02 the latest episode of a Cantonese podcast I love.

02:08 The podcast is called Questions We All Have.

02:14 In Cantonese, it should be pronounced...

02:17 Questions We All Have.

02:22 My Cantonese isn't very standard,

02:24 because Cantonese is not my first language.

02:25 I can only understand it,

02:28 and speak a little.

02:31 So when I discovered this episode...

02:34 I rarely listen to Cantonese podcasts.

02:36 But when I found this episode

02:39 and the host's show,

02:42 I thought, wow,

02:43 I really love this podcast.

02:46 I even feel that I really like the host himself.

02:49 Some of his qualities

02:51 make me admire him.

02:54 In an earlier episode,

02:56 I mentioned that I really like Jonathan Bi.

02:59 I mean Jonathan Bi himself.

03:01 I feel

03:02 that the two of them have very similar energy.

03:05 So I started wondering

03:07 whether they might

03:09 record an interview together

03:13 and discuss each other's

03:15 research interests,

03:18 or the questions each of them cares about.

03:21 I would really love to see that episode happen.

03:24 But I do not know whether it will become real,

03:27 because they are based in different places.

03:30 So,

03:32 I can only say I am making a wish.

03:34 Whether it comes true

03:36 will depend on what happens in the future.

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