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