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Lunin comments on The Great Filter is early, or AI is hard - Less Wrong Discussion

19 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 29 August 2014 04:17PM

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Comment author: Lunin 05 September 2014 04:28:59PM *  1 point [-]

There is a third alternative. Observed universe is limited, the probability of life arising from non-living matter is low, suitable planets are rare, evolution doesn't directly optimize for intelligence. Civilizations advanced enough to build strong AI are probably just too rare to appear in our light cone.

We could have already passed the 'Gread Filter' by actually existing in the first place.

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 05 September 2014 08:11:41PM 3 points [-]

Yes, that's exactly what an early great filter means.