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The Doomsday Argument in Many Worlds

@article{Gerig2012TheDA,
  title={The Doomsday Argument in Many Worlds},
  author={Austin Gerig},
  journal={arXiv: Popular Physics},
  year={2012}
}

• Austin Gerig
• Published 2012
• Physics
• arXiv: Popular Physics

You and I are highly unlikely to exist in a civilization that has produced only 70 billion people, yet we find ourselves in just such a civilization. Our circumstance, which seems difficult to explain, is easily accounted for if (1) many other civilizations exist and if (2) nearly all of these civilizations (including our own) die out sooner than usually thought, i.e., before trillions of people are produced. Because the combination of (1) and (2) make our situation likely and alternatives do… Expand

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