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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 10 December 2013 03:34:44AM *  4 points [-]

If it were just a date, then, yes, a factor of 4 is lost in the noise. But switching to panspermia changes the calculation. Try Overcoming Bias [Added: maybe this is only a change under Robin Hanson's hard steps model.]