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A Primer on the Doomsday Argument (1999)

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By Nick Bostrom.

Abstract:

Rarely does philosophy produce empirical predictions. The Doomsday argument is an important exception. From seemingly trivial premises it seeks to show that the risk that humankind will go extinct soon has been systematically underestimated. Nearly everybody's first reaction is that there must be something wrong with such an argument. Yet despite being subjected to intense scrutiny by a growing number of philosophers, no simple flaw in the argument has been identified.

Read the full paper:
https://anthropic-principle.com/q=anthropic_principle/doomsday_argument/

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