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About 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 mod
by wongarsu 3y ago
About 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.