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Eventually we're going to go through some version of the "Great Filter" like wet tofu through a shredder, but this gives me hope that it won't be in our lifetim

Eventually we're going to go through some version of the "Great Filter" like wet tofu through a shredder, but this gives me hope that it won't be in our lifetimes.

ethbro 10y ago
Unless we already happened to go through that when life magically transitioned from monocellular, simple competitive organisms to multicellular, complex cooperative organisms...
- Aelinsaar 10y ago
  That seems unlikely, since that transition happened multiple time along multiple pathways, and we observe that just on the single planet we know to have life.
  - ethbro 10y ago
    Do you have a source for that? I was specifically speaking about the first eukaryotic cell(s).