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timtyler comments on What would an ultra-intelligent machine make of the great filter? - Less Wrong Discussion

-3 Post author: James_Miller 28 November 2010 06:47PM

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Comment author: timtyler 29 November 2010 05:51:21PM -1 points [-]

(b) is counterfactual today. Nobody can calculate how many nearby star systems should have given birth to star faring civilizations - since nobody knows p(origin of life). We can't even make life from plausible inorganic materials yet. We are clueless - and thus highly uncertain.