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

23 Post author: JoshuaZ 19 April 2015 07:26PM

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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 20 April 2015 04:43:33PM 0 points [-]

I understood perfectly, I just think you're making a math error.

Comment author: JoshuaZ 20 April 2015 05:10:31PM 2 points [-]

In that case, I'm confused as to what the error is. Can you expand?

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 20 April 2015 06:34:49PM 2 points [-]

No, you're right. Environments are favored by their lifespan raised to the power of the number of Poisson filters.