Comments by "Taxtro" (@MrCmon113) on "The Odds of Life - THIS CHANGED MY MIND" video.

  1. That makes no sense to me at all. Something killing life and something killing a civiliation are two very different things. I think once you got a civilization, nothing's gonna undo that and it'll keep spreading forever. Civilizations seem FAR more limited by the requisite conditions for the arising and development of life.
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  2. E.g. we are going from stone tools to being totally safe from any conceivable catastrophy in the blink fo an eye. And I don't see why we should be outliers there.
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  3. What do you call a "hard reset"? Large animals survived in all of those cases. So nope, there were ZERO "resets".
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  4.  @MichaelWerle  That's basically the SIlurian Hypthesis. I haven't read the paper mentioned in the video, but I'm skeptical. How likely is it that a civilization arises JUST before a terrible mass extinction? If it doesn't arise just before such an event, it should still be around. None of the mass exitinctions in earth's history could kill us in our current state of technology and we got there in the blink of an eye on geological timescales.
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  5. Imagine you're in a room and you're informed that there's others in the same situations. More precisely, there's either 10 or 10 billion and their rooms are numbered. Now you learn that your room is number 5. Does that change your beliefs about the total number of rooms?
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