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Comment by landryraccoon

> You’d certainly never run across such a program by chance—not even if you had a computer the size of the observable universe, trying one random program after another for billions of years in a “primordial soup”!

This is a remarkable claim, given that we did encounter this program by random chance, and it only took about 10 billion years (the estimated age of the universe) give or take a few billion years.

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