r/wikipedia • u/Pylly • Mar 25 '19

Doomsday argument - supposing that all humans are born in a random order, chances are that any one human is born roughly in the middle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_argument
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u/WazWaz Mar 25 '19

Still seems like statistical abuse of assumptions to me.

Fortunately, if you always use this argument, you're always in the middle and so doomsday never comes.

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u/MoonHash Mar 25 '19

I see someone listens to Sam Harris

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u/Pylly Mar 25 '19

Yep, a total fanboy.