Talk:Doomsday argument

Page is out of date?
This source: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/04/quantifying-human-existence/ says that around 117 billions humans have ever lived and I thought this was common knowledge; the article relies on the wrong premise that only 60 billion humans have been born so far. Use: YlmbWP 8 Oct 2022 — Preceding unsigned comment added by YlmbWP (talk • contribs) 17:15, 8 October 2022 (UTC)

Elonite rebuttal omitted?
Current article fails to mention the simplest rebuttal constructed thus far: Elon Musk's admitted aim of creating a multi-planetary human species in the foreseeable future. By disseminating Homo Sapiens throughout the Solar System first and then among the stars and galaxies, it becomes ever less likely that any natural or intentional force could exterminate ALL the people. (Unless whoever said Fiat Lux! eventually says Lights out! - but that possibility lies firmly outside the domain of science.) 78.131.76.69 (talk) 22:10, 15 December 2022 (UTC)


 * This is already addressed in the article. If something happens that significantly increases the ability of humans to survive hardship (meteor, or whatever), then humans today may expect to be in the first 5%, which is the first rebuttal listed. For example, if one is certain that 99% of humans who will ever live will be cyborgs, but that only a negligible fraction of humans who have been born to date are cyborgs, one could be equally certain that at least one hundred times as many people remain to be born as have been. Replace cyborg with extra-planetary inhabitant. Closhund (talk) 18:42, 22 June 2023 (UTC)

What's the point?
What is the point of an argument with a ridiculous premise; 'the total number of humans that will exist is fixed'? 49.186.53.128 (talk) 02:01, 10 March 2024 (UTC)