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Could you expand on this? What quality of environment should we expect on anthropic grounds?
One that permits the evolution of intelligent agents - not necessarily one that permits them to easily spread throughout the universe.
Maybe, but I'm not really convinced. If there's a technological pathway between prehistory and space colonization, it's not a miracle for intelligence to find it; and while the complete nonexistence of such pathways might be a generic feature of planets and biospheres containing intelligence, I don't see why it necessarily would be.
It clearly isn't necessarily so, if we are a counter-example, as I am assuming.
I don't claim to have a hard scientific case for my statement. I'm just stating my impression - that we seem to have it pretty sweet, perhaps sweeter than we should reasonably expect.