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Do you prefer living in a universe where humanity is a one-snowflake civilization\u2014life exists here on a mote of dust in the outer reaches of the Milky Way\u2014or do you prefer living in a universe that is loud and noisy and populated? And how do you handle leftovers? [34:31]\xa0This week, Joey and Jess talk about loud and quiet aliens, LaMDA, Santa, unfortunate dinners, waste aversion, and dumplings. They don\u2019t talk about\xa0Isaac, Tayler, or Zac (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHozn0YXAeE).\xa0references\xa0* Revisiting bathroom ventures in episode\xa0155! Introducing: Nonsense VC! (https://www.thisisnonsense.com/episodes/155)\xa0* Lex Fridman Podcast #292:\xa0Robin Hanson: Alien Civilizations, UFOs, and the Future of Humanity (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBZP4rLk6bk)\xa0* Future of Humanity Institute (https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/)\xa0* The Astrophysical Journal:\xa0"If Loud Aliens Explain Human Earliness, Quiet Aliens Are Also Rare" (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac2369)\xa0* Drake Equation (https://www.seti.org/drake-equation-index)\xa0* "... on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam ..." (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wupToqz1e2g)\xa0* Scientific American:\xa0"Google Engineer Claims AI Chatbot Is Sentient: Why That Matters" (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/google-engineer-claims-ai-chatbot-is-sentient-why-that-matters/)\xa0* USS Nimitz \u2018Tic Tac\u2019 UFO: Declassified Video (https://www.history.com/videos/uss-nimitz-tic-tac-ufo-declassified-video)\xa0* CNBC:\xa0Watch the Pentagon's three declassified UFO videos taken by U.S. Navy pilots (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO_M0hLlJ-Q)\xa0* grabbyaliens.com (https://grabbyaliens.com/)