lavalamp comments on [Link] The Dominant Life Form In the Cosmos Is Probably Superintelligent Robots - Less Wrong

2 Post author: Gunnar_Zarncke 20 December 2014 12:28PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 28 December 2014 04:31:01PM 0 points [-]

The universe is a big, big place. It also becomes isolated relatively fast due to accelerating inflationary effects. There will probably be many intelligences out there even our most distant descendants will never meet.

Ultimately though you're making assumptions about the prior distribution of intelligent life which isn't warranted with a sample size of 1.

Comment author: lavalamp 04 January 2015 04:36:54PM 1 point [-]

An extremely low prior distribution of life is an early great filter.