IL comments on The First World Takeover - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: IL 19 November 2008 05:07:05PM 2 points [-]

"Or the first replicator to catch on, if there were failed alternatives lost to history - but this seems unlikely, given the Fermi Paradox; a replicator should be more improbable than that, or the stars would teem with life already."

So do you thing that the vast majority of The Big Filter is concentrated on the creation of a first replicator? What's the justification for that?