People may be biased towards thinking that the narrow slice of time they live in is the most important period in history, but statistically this is unlikely.
Intuitively I would imagine that this should be weighted by something like population? So if we plot the distribution of humans vs time, doomers are saying that we are close to the median of the distribution, while optimists are saying that we are in the 0.0(multiple or many zeros)1% beginning of the distribution and that there is a huge world out there in the future.
Intuitively I would imagine that this should be weighted by something like population? So if we plot the distribution of humans vs time, doomers are saying that we are close to the median of the distribution, while optimists are saying that we are in the 0.0(multiple or many zeros)1% beginning of the distribution and that there is a huge world out there in the future.