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		bee_rider on April 23, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Carl Sagan, nuking the moon, and not nuking the mo... A suffers from survivorship bias, right? The civilization in which we exist can’t have destroyed itself yet if we are to have made that observation.

snapcaster on April 23, 2024 [–]

Sure, but compared to what? I don't know what you would call the bias of "imaginging bad stuff happening in the future, and for some reason the bad stuff is inevitable regardless of planet, lifeform, etc."

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