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10 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 07 November 2008 11:22PM

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Comment author: notsonewuser 05 January 2014 07:11:30PM *  1 point [-]

You are very, very close to simply restating the Watchmaker Argument in favor of the existence of a Divine Being.

Not at all. The problem with the Watchmaker Argument wasn't the observation that humans are highly optimized; it was the conclusion that, therefore, it was God. And God is a very different hypothesis from alien intelligence in a universe we already know has the capability of producing intelligence.