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Nuclear war wouldn’t wipe out humanity. We, for dome value of “we,” would be around to talk about how it happened.

• Houshalter 9y ago
  I doubt most of the people here would be alive and the population would be significantly reduced.
  • mikeash 9y ago
    Can we really apply the anthropic principle so narrowly? Are we to conclude that my risk of death when crossing the street could be really high, and I can’t tell anything from the fact that it hasn’t happened because I wouldn’t be around to think about it if it had?
    • Houshalter 9y ago
      You can look at how often other people are hit by cars. You can also look at "close calls" where you were almost hit but miraculously saved. But if you have personally walked into traffic without looking hundreds of times, I'd think you are just lucky. And that using your survival as a single data point is just survivorship bias.