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Desrtopa comments on Don't plan for the future - Less Wrong Discussion

1 Post author: PhilGoetz 23 January 2011 10:46PM

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Comment author: Desrtopa 24 January 2011 08:55:16PM 0 points [-]

Personally, I don't think it's at all unreasonable to assign probabilities of any particular planet developing intelligent life on orders of 10^-12 or lower.