garden/doomsday argument.md

• a philosophical argument.
  • by Brandon Carter and John Leslie and Richard Gott.
  • "Because a random human would tend to find themselves in the middle of the population of all humans to exist…"
    • Why does it imply really we are near extinction, instead of a bit later than halfway? (population growth is accelerating but I think overall ~100 billion humans are expected to have lived so far, and we are only 7 billion currently.)
    • There is the possible reference class issue, as pointed out by Claude.