Because I'm wondering if the same logic can be applied to this thread. I'm sitting here at reply number 41. Does that mean that we probably have another few tens of replies yet to go on this thread? Probably more likely than there being hundreds of replies to go. So cherish the replies yet to come, just like you should cherish the Earth before doomsday.
As Mr. Morden is no doubt aware, the Doomsday Argument is probabilistic and assumes that randomness is
the determining factor in number of replies, or years left until Doomsday, or what have you, which is always a shaky assumption. In the case of actual Doomsday there is the not insignificant chance of some actually apocalyptic manmade event occurring. In the case of the Atlas Forum there are posters like Ishan who go around desecrating the graves of long-buried threads. In the case of this particular thread, its metaness is too tempting to keep the aforementioned gravediggers from constantly necroing it over the years, prolonging its length far beyond the average forum thread, and attracting others to make content-free posts (notably this one, notably
not the post above this one) purely to get this thread to page 11 and answer the question of what happens on that page, which may be succinctly described as a whole lot of nothing, a microcosm of the Blog as a whole.
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