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I don't agree with the assumption of a single great filter. Why not many sufficient enough filters. Maybe one occurrence of any is sufficient to locally halt fo
by jackfoxy 6y ago
I don't agree with the assumption of a single great filter. Why not many sufficient enough filters. Maybe one occurrence of any is sufficient to locally halt forever evolution to space-faring civilization, or successive occurrence of arbitrary filters at arbitrary intervals suffices.
- dyro 6y agoThe author states the great filter could be composed of multiple filters towards the end of the paper. > Nothing in the above reasoning precludes the Great Filter from being located both behind us and ahead of us. It might both be extremely improbable that intelligent life should arise on any given planet, and very improbable that intelligent life, once evolved, should succeed in becoming advanced enough to colonize space.
- jackfoxy 6y agoThanks, got bored and stopped reading before I got to that.