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sandworm101 on July 13, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: All People in Canada are the Same Age (1997)

A similar conjecture:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_argument

"In other words, we could assume that we could be 95% certain that we would be within the last 95% of all the humans ever to be born."

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