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by tbabb 3744 days ago
What is the process by which "samples" are drawn from the population of intelligent beings? This is a keystone of the article's argument, but it entirely hand-waved. It is not as if "intelligences" are created in the void and then assigned with some random distribution (uniform or otherwise) to bodies on planets-- each intelligent being in the universe is itself with probability 1.