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> amazing number of coincidences All of this in light of the very literal form of survivorship bias. Try a few billion or trillion planets to get the conditio
by neuronic 3y ago
> amazing number of coincidences
All of this in light of the very literal form of survivorship bias.
Try a few billion or trillion planets to get the conditions JUST right and there will probably be at least one getting it right. Inhabited by folks who wonder why it was their planet that had everything going for it.
- bondarchuk 3y ago>All of this in light of the very literal form of survivorship bias. That's basically what is meant with "anthropic principle" (as mentioned by parent).
- FrustratedMonky 3y ago"anthropic principle" = Survivor Bias. Never liked the anthropic arguments. Even back with Leibniz, arguing this is the 'best of all possible worlds' because it is the one we exist in that god provided. It's circular, or calls for some mysticism or parallel universes.