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ciphergoth comments on The Fermi paradox as evidence against the likelyhood of unfriendly AI - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: ciphergoth 02 August 2013 10:19:40AM 1 point [-]

How hard do you think abiogenesis looks? However much larger than our light-pocket the Universe is, counting many worlds, that's the width of the range of difficulty it has to be in to account for the Fermi paradox. AIUI that's a very wide, possibly infinite range, and it doesn't seem at all implausible to me that it's in that range. You have a model which would be slightly surprised by finding it that unlikely?