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That's not really relevant but also not true. A reasonable estimate is that ~105 billion modern homo sapiens have ever lived[1], the inflection point you're ta
by sharkjacobs 5y ago
That's not really relevant but also not true. A reasonable estimate is that ~105 billion modern
homo sapiens have ever lived[1], the inflection point you're talking about (50% humans born before & 50% born after) probably happened closer to 200-300CE[2]
[1]: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12288594/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12288594/
[2]: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-are-the-demographics-of-heaven/ https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-are-the-demographi...
- KingMachiavelli 5y agoHmm interesting. Would the number of human-years or human-hours lived be different? Perhaps looking at population/exponential graphs is giving me a false intuition because the birth & growth rates were much higher in the past but the overall growth rate stayed the same. It is relevant if you think that the individual unit of human civilization is a single person.