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dxu comments on Resolving the Fermi Paradox: New Directions - Less Wrong Discussion

12 Post author: jacob_cannell 18 April 2015 06:00AM

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Comment author: dxu 18 April 2015 03:58:07PM *  0 points [-]

Our universe might be fined-tuned for life because there are a huge number of universes each with different laws of physics and only under a tiny set of these laws can sentient life exist and we shouldn’t be surprised to live in one of these fine-tuned universes.

So what you're saying here is that we can conclude we live in one of these fine-tuned universes simply by updating on the fact of our existence, correct?

Comment author: James_Miller 18 April 2015 04:30:56PM *  1 point [-]

Our existence + the Fermi paradox, and it's a high probability rather than a certainty.