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Ok, I was ready to entertain the author of article until I got to this line: >"My conclusion is that in a colonized universe the probability of the annihilation
by vanattab 8y ago
Ok, I was ready to entertain the author of article until I got to this line:
>"My conclusion is that in a colonized universe the probability of the annihilation of the human race could actually rise rather than fall."
If you have the hubris to state you can accurately calculate such a probability I really have no interest in reading the rest of the article.
- JamilD 8y agoWhen does the author claim this? He says the probability could potentially rise, and doesn’t make any claim as to the actual value of that probability. Just that it could increase instead of decrease due to some factors others haven’t considered. I think it’s one thing to say “the value x could increase instead of decrease” vs “I claim that x is y”
- megaman22 8y agoThe dangers do increase... if planetary spaceflight is a reality, and common as, say shipping in the age of sail, then the danger of some nutter or terrorist tossing a rock down a gravity well becomes a real threat on an existential level. See Nemesis Games in the Expanse series, among others.