Escaping the Fermi paradox only takes ~62 OOMs, kellerjordan0 estimates
kellerjordan0 · x · 2026-09-12
kellerjordan0 offers a back-of-envelope estimate: to make p(we are alone) >= 20% — implying near-certainty of a great filter — you only need 62 orders of magnitude, or 31 OOMs if discounting the upper half (abiogenesis rates above one event per planet).
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