khafra comments on An empirical test of anthropic principle / great filter reasoning - Less Wrong

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 25 March 2010 07:55:36PM *  -1 points [-]

It's not an observation. It's an inference for which you need the anthropic principle. "Few have succeeded so far" is an observation. You'd need to observe the future to observe "Few will succeed".