Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Three Worlds Decide (5/8) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 03 February 2009 03:12:00PM 0 points [-]

The nova acted as a rendezvous signal, causing all starlines connected to that star to flare up. Otherwise it's too hard to find aliens - opening starlines is expensive. It's the chance of a direct encounter (small) versus chance of at least one mutual neighbor (larger).