Eniac comments on [link] On the abundance of extraterrestrial life after the Kepler mission - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eniac 07 December 2014 11:43:03PM 0 points [-]

That is true. However, if "any value could be assigned to Fb", then any value can be made to come out of the Drake equation, except for an upper bound. Updating on Rb can shift around that upper bound, but it tells you nothing about the really small values that decide whether we are alone in the universe or not.