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It would just mean that life is improbable, which is perfectly plausible.
by WithinReason 3y ago
It would just mean that life is improbable, which is perfectly plausible.
- throwanem 3y agoPlausible, sure, but such a vast improbability itself requires what would have to be quite a complex explanation.
- WithinReason 3y agoWhy? It could be simply statistically unlikely, nothing complex about it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle
- throwanem 3y agoOne out of many quadrillions doesn't seem like much of a sample size, for the kind of statistical analysis you imply.
- WithinReason 3y agoWe don't know the prior probability. Life being common has the same probability as life being rare.
- throwanem 3y agoExactly.
- int_19h 3y agoIf you throw a coin 100 times, and it's always tails, it is plausible that this just happened randomly, but I doubt most people would agree that it's the simplest explanation.