according to this line of thought, we’re acting in both kinds of universes: those with early filters, and those with late filters.
Suppose that the reason for a late filter is a (complex) logical fact about the nature of technological progress; that there is some technological accident that it is almost impossible for an intelligent species to avoid, and that the lack of an early filter is a logical fact about the nature of life-formation and evolution. For the purposes of clarity, we might even think of an early filter as impossible and a late filter as certain.
Then, in what sense do we “exist in both kinds of universe”?
Suppose that the reason for a late filter is a (complex) logical fact about the nature of technological progress; that there is some technological accident that it is almost impossible for an intelligent species to avoid, and that the lack of an early filter is a logical fact about the nature of life-formation and evolution. For the purposes of clarity, we might even think of an early filter as impossible and a late filter as certain.
Then, in what sense do we “exist in both kinds of universe”?