estimator comments on Open Thread, Jun. 15 - Jun. 21, 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: estimator 18 June 2015 07:16:56AM 0 points [-]

Filters don't have to be mutually exclusive, and as for collectively exhaustive part, take all plausible Great Filter candidates.

I don't quite understand that Great Filter hype, by the way; having a single cause for civilization failure seems very implausible (<1%).