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Alsadius comments on Open thread Jan. 5-11, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Alsadius 06 January 2015 09:23:01PM 0 points [-]

Observed by what? For this to make sense there'd need to be no life anywhere in the universe but here that could be relevant to the simulation.

Comment author: g_pepper 06 January 2015 09:59:03PM *  0 points [-]

Actually, all it requires is that the universe is somewhat sparsely populated - there is no requirement that there must be no life anywhere but here.

Furthermore, for all we know, maybe there is no life in the universe anywhere but here.