A look at the Doomsday Argument, also known as the Carter Catastrophe, a probabilistic argument which suggests humanity may be nearing its end. We will examine how this applies to the Fermi Paradox and the Simulation Hypothesis, as well as examining the concept of the Anthropic Principle.
Nick Bostrom's Doomsday Argument Primer
Today we are looking at two topics, the Anthropic Principle and the idea of greater than human intelligence, generally called Super-Intelligence or SI.
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