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Without a modern society around them, providing universities, technology, communication etc, these geniuses would just end up being the best farmer or handyman
by BurningFrog 3y ago
Without a modern society around them, providing universities, technology, communication etc, these geniuses would just end up being the best farmer or handyman in the village.
Also, human population was very small in the old days: https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-growth#world-population-from-10-000-bce-to-today https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-growth#world-pop...
- wongarsu 3y agoAbout 7% of all humans who have ever lived are currently alive. Which would mean that also about 7% of all geniuses ever are currently alive, and thanks to modern agriculture most of them are not stuck farming.
- BurningFrog 3y agoThis also means that, empirically, only 93% of all humans have died so far.
- wongarsu 3y agoWhich puts our confidence that everyone will die at less than 3-sigma. It could just be a coincidence so far
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 3y agoThis is actually one of my favorite examples of cherry-picking statistics to support a false statement. "There's about a 7% chance I won't die because, of all humans who have ever lived, only about 93% have died." Of course, this ignores the entire concept of "life expectancy" but such is the nature of cherry-picking statistics to support a false statement.