@St_Rev I guess that answers my question http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_argument …
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@sarahdoingthing (Have not checked any of this against critiques/developments in that article, just first impression.) -
@St_Rev that's what I was interested in - thanks!!
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@sarahdoingthing Oh right that. Qs: Why use population instead of time as your measure? Why use human pop instead of animal pop? -
@St_Rev@sarahdoingthing because only humans have souls - I mean are observers in the right reference class ;)
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@sarahdoingthing ...and reading the article, looks like I duplicated half the objections. I am a genius. -
@St_Rev@sarahdoingthing those are my objections too#alsogenius
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@sarahdoingthing Why use human population rather than 'humans mathematically sophisticated enough to think of the Doomsday Argument'?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sarahdoingthing To summarize the summary: past performance is no guarantee of future results.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sarahdoingthing All of which objections really point out that assuming humans are at a random position in a uniform distribution isn't...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sarahdoingthing ...just questionable, but provably wrong (at most one of those measures could be uniform, probably none are).Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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