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It's survivorship bias—where bias means skewed from the full distribution of choices people and societies made, not bias as in discrimination. Most of the fami
by mLuby 4y ago
It's survivorship bias—where bias means skewed from the full distribution of choices people and societies made, not bias as in discrimination.
Most of the families and societies that didn't prioritize population growth (by reproduction or immigration) aren't around to advocate for that approach's merits, whereas those that did are.
Fun fact: for each human alive today there've been 15 deceased humans ever. As zombie apocalypses go, 15:1 doesn't sound too bad.
Kurzgesagt has some interesting videos on human population if that's your style: https://youtu.be/LEENEFaVUzU?t=206 https://youtu.be/LEENEFaVUzU?t=206 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBT5EQt348 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBT5EQt348
- nayuki 4y agoPrimer has an interesting video too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6sa_fWQB_4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6sa_fWQB_4 "How many people might ever exist, calculated"