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How an Equation That Predicts the Future Is Transforming Everything We Know about Life and the Universe

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An edition of Doomsday Calculation (2019)

Doomsday Calculation

How an Equation That Predicts the Future Is Transforming Everything We Know about Life and the Universe

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How to think about the unthinkable using cock-eyed statistics and pie-eyed philosophy.

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Little Brown & Company, Little, Brown Spark
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English
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320

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Subjects

the anthropic principle, artificial intelligence, Bayes's theorem, doomsday, extraterrestrial life, probability, simulation hypothesis, thought experiments

People

Thomas Bayes (d. 1761), Nick Bostrom, Brandon Carter, Enrico Fermi (1901-1954), J. Richard Gott, John Leslie, Max Tegmark

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the last quarter of the 20th century

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Doomsday Calculation: How an Equation That Predicts the Future Is Transforming Everything We Know about Life and the Universe
2020, Little Brown & Company, Little, Brown Spark
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Doomsday Calculation: How an Equation That Predicts the Future Is Transforming Everything We Know about Life and the Universe
2019, Little Brown & Company
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Doomsday Calculation: How an Equation That Predicts the Future Is Transforming Everything We Know about Life and the Universe
2019, Little Brown & Company
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