RE: my objection to the Doomsday argument

From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Apr 29 2003 - 20:03:08 MDT

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    Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:

    > The Doomsday argument tries to wring too much knowledge out of too
    > little data, and is for the time being still completely useless.

    I tend to agree with this statement of yours, Rafal, though I still enjoy
    the puzzle when I'm not too wrapped up in other mental diversions.

    Extropians really ought to be puzzling over the problem of world hunger,
    space colonization, or some other such thing.

    If all humans were to accept the DA argument for imminent doomsday then the
    DA would become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Progress would halt. Despair
    would prevail. The species would fall. Proponents of DA would have been in
    the right, but so what?

    -gts

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