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Gurkenglas comments on Open Thread, Jun. 15 - Jun. 21, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Gurkenglas 18 June 2015 09:13:39AM 2 points [-]

When considering candidates for the Great Filter, you must keep in mind that it stopped all the to-be universe conquerors in our past light cone. Your suggestion doesn't seem that insurmountable.

Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 18 June 2015 11:26:53AM 0 points [-]

Agreed. I don't think that much of the filtering strength of the great filter is one specific epoch. But within the epoch of civilizations it may be that a large part of the filter power is right now.