doomsday argument
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probabilistic argument that claims to predict the number of future members of the human species given an estimate of the total number of humans born so far
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prior probability
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philosophy
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extinction
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Bayes' theorem
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extinction event
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probability distribution
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hazard
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anthropic principle
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confidence interval
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a priori and a posteriori
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global catastrophic risk
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Copernican principle
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J. Richard Gott
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Jesus
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human
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Artificial intelligence
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anthropology
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International Standard Book Number
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species
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pandemic
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