Doomsday argument
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The Doomsday argument (DA) is a probabilistic argument that claims to predict the number of future members of the human species given only an estimate of the total number of humans born so far. Simply put, it says that supposing the humans alive today are in a random place in the whole human history timeline, chances are we are about halfway through it.
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See also
- Doomsday events
- Fermi paradox
- Final anthropic principle
- Hypothetical disasters
- Mediocrity principle
- Quantum immortality
- Simulated reality
- Sic transit gloria mundi
- Survival analysis
- Survivalism
- Technological singularity
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