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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
Language
English
Pages
306

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Subjects
the anthropic principle, artificial intelligence, Bayes's theorem, doomsday, extraterrestrial life, probability, simulation hypothesis, thought experiments
People
Thomas Bayes, Nick Bostrom, Brandon Carter, Enrico Fermi, J. Richard Gott, John Leslie, Max Tegmark
Times
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
in English
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2019, Little Brown & Company
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First Sentence

"Six-year-old Helen Gregg, her nine-year-old sister, Frances, and their nine-year-old cousin, Ella Davies, never saw the atomic bomb that hit their playhouse."

Table of Contents

Diana and Charles Page 3
Part I. Consider the Lemming Page 7
How to Predict Everything Page 9
Riddle of the Sphinx Page 24
The Minister of Tunbridge Wells Page 32
Twelve Reasons Why the Doomsday Argument Is Wrong Page 57
Twenty-Four Dogs in Albuquerque Page 71
Baby Names and Bomb Fragments Page 82
Sleeping Beauty Page 102
The Presumptuous Philosopher Page 110
Tarzan Meets Jane Page 121
The Shooting Room Page 128
The Metaphysics of Gumball Machines Page 136
Part II. Life, Mind, Universe Page 147
The Simulation Hypothesis Page 149
The Fermi Question Page 166
The Princess in the Tower Page 173
Two Questions for an Extraterrestrial Page 184
Pandora's Box Page 194
Life and Death in Many Worlds Page 209
1/137 Page 224
Summoning the Demon Page 241
You Are Here Page 256
Acknowledgments Page 263
Notes Page 265
Sources Page 283
Index Page 297

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New York, USA
Copyright Date
2019

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QA279.5 .P68 2019

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hardcover
Pagination
306p
Number of pages
306
Weight
538 grams

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OL28919213M
ISBN 13
9780316440707

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