Re:The Ethics of Spreading Life in the Cosmos
by pfdietz on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @07:17PM
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It's weird you think that link settles things. A planet could be Earth-like without having life. We don't know how likely life is to arise on an Earth-like planet. In particular, we cannot conclude that because we are here, the probability of it happening on Earth was high, due to observer selection bias.
https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/W6-Observer-sele...
https://www.space.com/30172-six-most-earth-like-alien-planet...