advancedatheist comments on Astronomy, space exploration and the Great Filter - Less Wrong

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Comment author: advancedatheist 19 April 2015 09:53:24PM -1 points [-]

The emergence of our species acted as the Great Filter to wipe out all other possible candidates for intelligence in the universe, mechanism unknown.

Comment author: JoshuaZ 19 April 2015 10:40:21PM 0 points [-]

This explanation does not work. Say exactly one species gets to emerge and do this. Then why would that one species show up so late?