private_messaging comments on 2013 Survey Results - Less Wrong

74 Post author: Yvain 19 January 2014 02:51AM

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Comment author: private_messaging 22 January 2014 08:08:11PM 6 points [-]

There's two sorts of uncertainty here. The more physical kind: probability that life arises, intelligence evolves, etc etc.

And there's "our uncertainty" kind of probability - we don't know what it takes for the life to evolve - and this is common for all galaxies.