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		ewindal on Sept 14, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Signs of Life discovered on Venus and atmosphere There’s nothing stopping there from being several great filters.

T-hawk on Sept 14, 2020 [–]

There is the power law heuristic, that 90% of results are often due to 10% of phenomena.

If there are several filters, then they may differ in effectiveness by many multiples, and then it's semantics as to whether you say any beyond the largest are "great".

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