‘Doomsday’ Math Says Humanity May Have Just 760 Years Left

The so-called “doomsday argument” holds that there is a 50% chance that the end of human life will come within 760 years. To apply this to the future of humanity, the doomsday argument begins by asking us to imagine a list of all past, present and future people, sorted in their order of birth. Drawing on ideas from Dr. Carter, philosopher John Leslie at the University of Guelph in Canada devised a version of the doomsday math that allows forecasters to plug in estimates for the probability of any chosen apocalypse(s).

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