Venkatesh Rao@vgrThe Copernicus principle, or, the Premium Mediocre Lindy effectQuote TweetThe Washington Post@washingtonpost·Oct 6, 2017Analysis: We have a pretty good idea of when humans will go extinct http://wapo.st/2xmdm3212:52 AM · Oct 7, 20172 Likes
Benjamin Dean Mahala@BenDMahala·Oct 7, 2017Replying to @vgrThat argument is extremely sensitive to how you define the start date. Taking 200,000 years ago is pretty arbitrary. Why not the dawn of agriculture? Why not the first anatomically modern humans?