amcknight comments on [LINK] Updating Drake's Equation with values from modern astronomy - Less Wrong

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Comment author: amcknight 15 June 2016 09:11:51PM 0 points [-]

But the lower bound of this is still well below one. We can't use our existence in the light cone to infer there's at least about one per light cone. There can be arbitrarily many empty light cones.