i have subscribed to too many podcasts. so they pile up and i only manage to reduce the waiting list very slowly, if at all. so this evening on my way home i was listening to this podcast from the seminars about long term thinking. it is already quite old, way back from the days when covid was still a thing. but it aged well and i found it very interesting.

how could we identify a language? bees' metaphores, seti and with whales!

#science #thelongnow #long-term-thinking #seti

#^Laurance Doyle: Interspecies Communication and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence - The Long Now



Dr. Laurance Doyle is an astrophysicist and principal investigator at SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) with expertise in diverse subjects including extrasolar planets, signal processing and communications theory. He has worked on image analysis from the Voyager mission and Halley's Comet, developed statistical methodologies to...