We don’t know whether the Great Filter is ahead of us or behind us. The more evidence we find that life is common throughout the universe, the more the probability mass moves towards “ahead of us”, because more “behind us” possibilities have been eliminated.
We don’t know whether the Great Filter is ahead of us or behind us. The more evidence we find that life is common throughout the universe, the more the probability mass moves towards “ahead of us”, because more “behind us” possibilities have been eliminated.