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RaelwayScot comments on Simulations Map: what is the most probable type of the simulation in which we live? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: RaelwayScot 11 October 2015 07:26:45PM 0 points [-]

Perhaps the conditions that cause the Fermi paradox are actually crucial for life. If spaceflight was easy, all resources would have been exhausted by exponential growth pretty quickly. This would invalidate the 'big distances' point as evidence for a non-streamlined universe, though.