Alicorn comments on Avoiding doomsday: a "proof" of the self-indication assumption - Less Wrong

18 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 23 September 2009 02:54PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (228)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: Alicorn 24 September 2009 10:34:27PM 0 points [-]

Sure. But the human species can go extinct on one day without a vast number of humans dying on that day. Maybe it's just one little old lady who took a damn long time to kick the bucket, and then finally she keels over and that's "doomsday".

Comment author: prase 25 September 2009 02:21:50PM 0 points [-]

That's what Psychohistorian was saying shouldn't be called doomsday, and I tend to agree.