artemium comments on Open thread, Dec. 15 - Dec. 21, 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: artemium 17 December 2014 07:19:27AM 0 points [-]

Yeah, I know that there are other filters behind us, but I just found it as a funny coincidence while I was in the middle of the facebook discussion about Great Filter and someone shared this Bostrom's article .

But I hope that our Mars probes will discover nothing.  It would be good news if we find Mars to be completely sterile.  Dead rocks and lifeless sands would lift my spirit.