V_V comments on The Great Filter is early, or AI is hard - Less Wrong

19 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 29 August 2014 04:17PM

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Comment author: V_V 29 August 2014 07:57:37PM 2 points [-]

The Fermi paradox implies that something very unlikely is indeed occurring.

Or space colonization is just hard.

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 29 August 2014 08:55:20PM 5 points [-]

The evidence seems to be that it's "easy" (see http://lesswrong.com/lw/hll/to_reduce_astronomical_waste_take_your_time_then/ ), at least over the thousand-million year range.