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From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rafal@smigrodzki.org)
Date: Mon Jun 02 2003 - 16:21:49 MDT

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    Hal wrote:
    > Harvey writes:
    >
    >> The Doomsday Argument makes a lot of assumptions to prove its
    >> point. There is no evidence for those assumptions, and the whole
    >> argument falls apart if you try to find evidence for the assumptions.
    >
    > What are some of the assumptions the DA makes to prove its point, for
    > which there is no evidence?

    ### Assumption: at this time in the evolution of the universe the measure of
    civs which die early (before diaspora) is not significantly lower than the
    measure of civs which live to diaspora and beyond. If the above were not
    true, our early birth rank would not be worrisome at all.

    Rafal

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