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minus-square@BytemeisterlinkEnglish6•2 months agoI thought it was just an instantaneous, every living thing has a 50/50 chance of living or dying. No rounding, no species specific exceptions.
minus-squareℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝linkfedilinkEnglish2•2 months agoSo that means that since bacteria and the like outnumber us by orders of magnitude, statistically speaking, multicellular life would be wiped out completely.
minus-square@BytemeisterlinkEnglish2•edit-22 months agoNo, they reproduce pretty quickly. Wipe out 50 % of the bacteria in your body, and they will recover in a few hours.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•2 months agoThat’s not how probabilities work. Every lifeform flips a coin. It doesn’t matter what everyone else got, you still have a 50/50 chance.
I thought it was just an instantaneous, every living thing has a 50/50 chance of living or dying. No rounding, no species specific exceptions.
So that means that since bacteria and the like outnumber us by orders of magnitude, statistically speaking, multicellular life would be wiped out completely.
No, they reproduce pretty quickly. Wipe out 50 % of the bacteria in your body, and they will recover in a few hours.
That’s not how probabilities work. Every lifeform flips a coin. It doesn’t matter what everyone else got, you still have a 50/50 chance.