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The Doomsday Argument

2019 E39    Dec 8, 2019    18m
Since the dawn of humanity around 100 billion people have lived. How many will live in the future of our species? We might hope for a trillion times that if we colonize the galaxy. But a simple statistical argument tells us that the doom of our species is much, much closer.
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  • Matthew O’Dowd
 
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