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2Punx2Furious t1_ityofsh wrote

> There were about 117 billion humans in total. So it makes 8/117 = ~6.83%

But that only counts past humans. Of course, we can't know how many humans there will be in the future (if any), but that number is probably higher.

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-ZeroRelevance- t1_itzmlc3 wrote

In such a case we may actually be cosmically unlucky, assuming humanity manages to spread across the galaxy and prosper for millions of years, creating many orders of magnitude more humans than have ever existed in history.

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