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Does anyone know, like, a reasonable lower bound on number of species humanity has driven extinct?
I've seen crazy high numbers that (last I checked) seemed to be an extrapolation by people with an ideological ax to grind. (Based on how much habitat we've destroyed, and assuming some number of species per unit-area). ChatGPT suggested "900" as the lower bound based on some snippet they found from "International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)", but looking into it was a enough work I thought I might toss it to the LessWrong folk and see if anyone could get a more confident answer.
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By LessWrongDoes anyone know, like, a reasonable lower bound on number of species humanity has driven extinct?
I've seen crazy high numbers that (last I checked) seemed to be an extrapolation by people with an ideological ax to grind. (Based on how much habitat we've destroyed, and assuming some number of species per unit-area). ChatGPT suggested "900" as the lower bound based on some snippet they found from "International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)", but looking into it was a enough work I thought I might toss it to the LessWrong folk and see if anyone could get a more confident answer.
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First published:
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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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