MichaelBishop comments on Do Fandoms Need Awfulness? - Less Wrong

23 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 28 May 2009 06:03AM

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Comment author: alvarojabril 01 June 2009 07:34:34PM 0 points [-]

Just read over that for the first time and it seems to me that Eliezer's argument relies heavily on the anthropic principle, that is, it underestimates the amount of resources it has taken the universe to produce a very small amount of life, so far as we know.

Comment author: MichaelBishop 02 June 2009 01:48:01AM 0 points [-]

This is not something I know a lot about, perhaps that is why I don't understand either part of your comment.