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Re:Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star by argonaut on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @09:39PM (#12356437)
Agreed with cmrdporcupine. The anthropocentric view is actually the idea that because life exists for us, it therefore isn't that special and is likely to have arisen somewhere else - we are anthropocentrically biased to think that life is more likely than it actually is because we ourselves experience it.
Re:Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star by 0xfeba on Thursday August 25, 2016 @10:18AM (#12359153)
That's not really what anthropocentric means. Anthropocentric is that the human species, not just life, is special.

What you are talking about is "anthroexclusive", or something like that.

See my response to whom you agree with: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12359111

Re:Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star by argonaut on Monday August 29, 2016 @09:05AM (#12381564)
Correct. The term I meant to use was anthropic bias.