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Re:The New Population Bomb by xqcgrek2 on Thursday September 23, 2021 @05:45PM (#28635943)
Actually a medieval person or neolithic person would have derived large future ages, because in those epochs population growth was slow and arguably not even exponential.

The fact we know there is a fast rise and possible peak in world population around 2050 means most humans born or ever to be born will be born in the years ~1700-2200. This is pure math, and an argument against it is an argument against the Copernican principle.

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Re:The New Population Bomb by ClumsyPilot on Thursday September 23, 2021 @06:07PM (#28636212)
Yup, i got it wrong. However it seems like a statistical argument from a sample of 1, very similar to this:

https://xkcd.com/605/

Could method adequately predict extincrion of DoDo or brontasaurus?

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