There has been a big push, I've noticed, towards excessive generalization. We aren't special, life is generalised. This seems to have appeared as a pushback a

There has been a big push, I've noticed, towards excessive generalization. We aren't special, life is generalised. This seems to have appeared as a pushback against the thought that we are somehow special, but it has imo gone too far. The fact is, we're attempting to quantize extremely unknown unknowns, and to claim that we're not special because we can conceive of other life that is essentially equivalent to us is to make a huge set of assumptions regarding the plausibility of said life. Let the argument that exponential societal/technological growth goes on forever be a warning that over-generalisation is sensationalism!