>>10895260> the chances are infinitesimalInverse gambler's fallacy
Assume there's a lottery with a billion tickets, and there's a billion participants, each buying 1 ticket.
The person who wins will say "no way, that's impossible, I mean what are the chances of that!"
Someone was going to win. It just happened to be that person. Likewise, life was going to happen, it just happens to be us. If there's a lifeform achieving sentience near the end of the stelliferous period, they won't be asking that question. (In fact they'll probably reverse it: "How is it possible that we only exist so close to the end of the (useful) universe? Why weren't we born only a few billion years after the singularity?")
