Ironically, in the future we might learn that the first replicator required “chance” in the same order of magnitude.
In an infinite universe, a 1 in 10^^10 event is guaranteed to happen infinitely many times.
It’s not guaranteed… but that’s pedantry-about-infinity: the chance of it _not_ happening once is zero, the chance if it _not_ happening twice is zero, and so on, and so on.
Ironically, in the future we might learn that the first replicator required “chance” in the same order of magnitude.
In an infinite universe, a 1 in 10^^10 event is guaranteed to happen infinitely many times.
It’s not guaranteed… but that’s pedantry-about-infinity: the chance of it _not_ happening once is zero, the chance if it _not_ happening twice is zero, and so on, and so on.