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Comment by beltsazar

This is a such common logical fallacy that we should have name for it.

> No matter how low the odds are, the counts of those potential interactions bring this outcome to a certainty.

"No matter how low", really? Are you suggesting that your multiplication result is infinite? Otherwise, no matter how big the result is—even if it's Graham's number or TREE(3)—but as long as it's finite, there are odds so low that bring the outcome extremely unlikely.

The thing is we don't know even a ballpark estimate of the odds, but you were saying like we have a lower bound of the odds. The universe is unfathomably huge, true, but we also don't know if abiogenesis is less unfathomably unlikely.

parent beltsazar 2 years ago

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