Big Hypotheses
Open questions science and philosophy haven't settled — simulation, consciousness, the Fermi paradox
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Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?
Nick Bostrom · Paper
The Great Filter — Are We Almost Past It?
Robin Hanson · Essay
Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will
Robert Sapolsky · Book
Galileo's Error
Philip Goff · Book
Large Number Coincidences and the Anthropic Principle in Cosmology
Brandon Carter · Paper
Our Mathematical Universe
Max Tegmark · Book
The Kardashev Scale
Nikolai Kardashev · Astrophysics
Dark Forest Theory
Liu Cixin · Science Fiction