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Is this a restatement of the Fermi Paradox? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox
by altcognito 12y ago
Is this a restatement of the Fermi Paradox?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox
- cjslep 12y agoNo, it attempts to quantify how many humans are alive at a point in the future. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_argument http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_argument
- jes5199 12y agothere isn't a trivial mapping from one to the other, but they both do have the quality of "knowing what we know of the universe, what happens next?" and they both seem to conclude "if we aren't doomed that's because something novel is happening in the universe"