Decius comments on The Octopus, the Dolphin and Us: a Great Filter tale - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Decius 22 September 2014 10:06:19PM 3 points [-]

Good point; lottery-low odds are inadequate to explain the paradox. Literally astronomical odds against a feature of Earth would be required.

"Has been observed to not have a large moon" is not something that we can say about 99% of observed planets.