Sebastian_Hagen2 comments on The First World Takeover - Less Wrong

16 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 19 November 2008 03:00PM

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Comment author: Sebastian_Hagen2 19 November 2008 05:04:19PM 2 points [-]

To add to Abigail's point: Is there significant evidence that the critically low term in the Drake Equation isn't f_i (i.e. P(intelligence|life))? If natural selection on earth hadn't happened to produce an intelligent species, I would assign a rather low probability of any locally evolved life surviving the local sun going nova. I don't see any reasonable way of even assigning a lower bound to f_i.