DanielLC comments on If life is unlikely, SIA and SSA expectations are similar - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DanielLC 17 November 2011 07:26:23PM 0 points [-]

The probability of intelligent life in this universe is 100%

Right. Now I feel stupid for missing that.

Different objection: the amount of life isn't a poisson distribution. It has much thicker tails, as the absurd amount of life in MWI shows.