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nbouscal 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: nbouscal 18 April 2015 08:19:40PM 0 points [-]

It doesn't, because the reals are infinite in two ways: any given interval is infinite, but the number of intervals is also infinite.

Also this only applies to changing the constants but keeping the general structure the same; you can also create further laws by changing the structure of the laws itself. There are a lot of degrees of freedom.