On: Life Is a Ponzi Scheme (2009)

[behindsight]

Although a good sentiment, the information age coupled with more advanced climate models makes us much better at predicting.

Additionally, it's only been within the last century where we've been technologically capable of causing a mass-extinction level event via nuclear weapons. Here's a fun list of close-calls [0]

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_close_calls

[dwighttk → behindsight]

>much better at predicting

Citation needed

[darth_skywalker → dwighttk]

This is a fair point - it's hard to predict the future with our current technology given the difficulty of envisioning future technology.