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Why hubristic? Because he did it? What would a non-hubristic attempt to estimate the prevalence of life in the universe look like, short of actually finding ali
by lopmotr 6y ago
Why hubristic? Because he did it? What would a non-hubristic attempt to estimate the prevalence of life in the universe look like, short of actually finding aliens?
- marshray 6y agoI said 'hubristic' because it seemed to me that the inability to draw conclusions about the cosmos from our own (single data point) limited perspective was a fundamental limitation of the human condition.