> a way of asserting that you think the probability of a technological civilization arising is vanishingly small I have no idea one way or another. I wonder wh

> a way of asserting that you think the probability of a technological civilization arising is vanishingly small I have no idea one way or another. I wonder why many scientists are confident that extraterrestrial intelligent life exists though. Viewing through the lens of one example in a random (otherwise) unremarkable multiverse, it's not clear to me why this should be so.