Unsettling Study Finds People Just Don't Care That Much if Humans Go Extinct

Fri, 15 Nov 2019 07:02:27 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-find-we-don-t-care-all-that-much-if-humans-go-extinct>

"As you might expect, most people ranked no catastrophe as the best
possibility and complete human extinction as the worst. But when asked
to think about the difference in "badness" between the possibilities,
most people were more bothered by the possibility of losing 80 percent
of humanity than losing all of it."

Via Matto F and Paul Ferguson.

Cheers,
        *** Xanni ***
--
mailto:xanni@xanadu.net                   Andrew Pam
http://www.xanadu.com.au/                 Chief Scientist, Xanadu
http://www.glasswings.com.au/             Partner, Glass Wings
http://www.sericyb.com.au/                Manager, Serious Cybernetics

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