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Alexander Gieg's avatar

I was thinking more along the lines of the Kardashev scale. In it the grabby aliens model roughly corresponds to a universe filled with Type III civilizations, while my analogy fits a Type IV.

Arguably polytheist pantheons might be considered Type IV (or even V) civilizations, so I supposes this does indeed work as an argument of sorts for some kind of disenchanted theism.

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Donald Hobson's avatar

Its too strong not to leave other effects. 10^37 every second is a ridiculous force towards being as early as possible. If that was actually true, we would live in a would that appeared at the first moment it was physically possible to do so. In this regime, the chance of the human genome appearing through spontanious random chance corresponds to only a few months. (Ie there are so many more universes of age T than of age T+1 year, that there are more universes of age T in which the human genome randomly assembles itself, than there are universes of age T+1 year total. )

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