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I'm a bit surprised at the criticism. I always thought of it as more of an equation template than a very specific equation. Of course if you take a specific ver

I'm a bit surprised at the criticism. I always thought of it as more of an equation template than a very specific equation. Of course if you take a specific version of it, there are things it won't capture that we discover over time. But the idea that we can take a very large number and whittle it down seems reasonable.

_rpd 5y ago
Yes, it's inspired a lot of investigations and discussions, which was exactly its purpose. See also: 'solutions' to the Fermi Paradox. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox