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The Size Distribution of Inhabited Planets — HN submission

Tue, 01 Jun 2021 18:22:26 GMT

The Size Distribution of Inhabited Planets

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The Size Distribution of Inhabited Planets — mentioned by kmm

Thu, 01 Nov 2018 01:20:48 GMT

Another neat example is that 98% of the world's population lives in a country larger than the median. A more interesting deduction is that humanity is probably atypical, and larger than the average extraterrestrial civilization. Any sentient observer is equally likely to be any single individual, but purely on statistical grounds it is more likely to be part of a larger group. There are further corollaries (see the linked paper), like that the average inhabitated planet is probably smaller than the Earth, the average alien probably has a longer lifespan, and they are probably larger than us…

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The Size Distribution of Inhabited Planets — mentioned by jessriedel

Mon, 06 Apr 2015 17:25:30 GMT

Shouldn't the URL for an arXiv submission point to the abstract rather than the PDF? This lets one read the abstract without downloading the whole document. http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.07804

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The Size Distribution of Inhabited Planets — HN submission

Mon, 06 Apr 2015 13:13:46 GMT

The Nature of Inhabited Planets and Their Inhabitants [pdf]

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