ShardPhoenix comments on Privileged Snuff - Less Wrong

17 Post author: rwallace 22 January 2010 05:38AM

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Comment author: ShardPhoenix 23 January 2010 01:41:15PM *  6 points [-]

I don't think anthropic arguments can be used here because you could equally argue that it's more likely we're living in a universe where the laws of physics are such that high energy particle collisions are rarely or never world-destroying than it is that we're living in a universe where they are world-destroying, and we've just gotten lucky a whole bunch of times so far.

Also, we can observe that nothing world-destroying seems to happen on other planets that are also exposed to high-energy particles.