steven0461 comments on This Failing Earth - Less Wrong

19 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 24 May 2009 04:09PM

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Comment author: steven0461 25 May 2009 02:47:14PM 0 points [-]

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.

Comment author: timtyler 25 May 2009 03:23:27PM 1 point [-]

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.