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Re:Life Is a Ponzi Scheme (2009) by behindsight on Sunday November 03, 2019 @06:57AM (#21433369)
Although a good sentiment, the information age coupled with more advanced climate models makes us much better at predicting.

Additionally, it's only been within the last century where we've been technologically capable of causing a mass-extinction level event via nuclear weapons. Here's a fun list of close-calls [0]

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_close_calls

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Re:Life Is a Ponzi Scheme (2009) by dwighttk on Sunday November 03, 2019 @07:25AM (#21433451)
>much better at predicting

Citation needed

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Re:Life Is a Ponzi Scheme (2009) by darth_skywalker on Sunday November 03, 2019 @01:23PM (#21435583)
This is a fair point - it's hard to predict the future with our current technology given the difficulty of envisioning future technology.
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