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Agreed. It is so highly unlikely that the probability is effectively zero.

Let's give everyone the benefit of the doubt and assume that humanity can exist a thousand times longer than your estimate, say 3x10^9 years. That's about as long as we think life has existed on earth, which is a VERY LONG TIME. That said, it's still 1 x 10^-69 of that time period. I think you can see where we're going with this.



it won't be humanity, but it should hopefully be some sort of intelligence


No offense intended, but I have a serious question:

Why would you hope this? This hope seems to me a vestige of the desire of some humans for immortality. And why would it matter to folks whether some sort of intelligence existed this incomprehensibly far into the future?




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