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Re:A Primer on the Doomsday Argument by altcognito on Monday August 18, 2014 @01:58PM (#8193683)
Is this a restatement of the Fermi Paradox?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox

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Re:A Primer on the Doomsday Argument by cjslep on Monday August 18, 2014 @02:02PM (#8193699)
No, it attempts to quantify how many humans are alive at a point in the future.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_argument

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Re:A Primer on the Doomsday Argument by jes5199 on Monday August 18, 2014 @03:26PM (#8194131)
there isn't a trivial mapping from one to the other, but they both do have the quality of "knowing what we know of the universe, what happens next?" and they both seem to conclude "if we aren't doomed that's because something novel is happening in the universe"
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