From: cryofan@mylinuxisp.com
Date: Fri Apr 25 2003 - 14:44:20 MDT
"Keith M. Elis" <zarathustra_winced@yahoo.com> said:
> Here's a thought that must have been raised by someone, but I haven't the
> breadth of experience to know.
>
> The Doomsday argument concludes, as it must, that the sum total of humans
> who will live is not much larger than the number of humans who have already
> lived. By Bayes' theorem, we must update our beliefs to incorporate the
> statistical likelihood that our civilization's end is in sight
Either that or in the near future human beings will stop having kids, which
makes a lot of sense to me.
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