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Re:The Ethics of Spreading Life in the Cosmos by IncreasePosts on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @12:01PM (#43483642)
The dice weren't supposed to be a parallel to the odds of other life in the universe, but just about finding if you had any limits to your agnosticism.
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Re:The Ethics of Spreading Life in the Cosmos by pfdietz on Thursday March 27, 2025 @10:29AM (#43494048)
The dice example is one where we can readily compute the probabilities.

The problem with origin of life is we can't do that with the information we have. It's not that the probability is high or low, it's that it's unknown.

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