From: Eugen Leitl (eugen@leitl.org)
Date: Tue Nov 05 2002 - 15:59:59 MST
On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Technotranscendence wrote:
> The Fermi Paradox -- why we don't see a universe bustling with
> intelligent life even though it appears that life is likely and
I don't see how advanced life is likely. In fact, I think there's very
good evidence that advanced life is very unlikely, so Fermi's is not not a
paradox at all.
> intelligent life even if only remotely possible should, because of the
> apparent size and age of the known universe be all over the place -- is
If life is very unlikely, yet you're instance, you cannot fail to observe
that you exist. Anthropic principle is boring, and trivial, and perhaps
not. Are you really sure you realize what it means? Have you ever tried
observing your non-existance?
> taken dead on in a recent story by Robert Reed, "Lying to Dogs."
> (_Asimov's Science Fiction_, December 2002)
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