
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


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.
---
First published:
Source:
---
Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
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.
---
First published:
Source:
---
Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

26,375 Listeners

2,424 Listeners

8,934 Listeners

4,153 Listeners

92 Listeners

1,594 Listeners

9,907 Listeners

90 Listeners

75 Listeners

5,469 Listeners

16,043 Listeners

539 Listeners

130 Listeners

95 Listeners

503 Listeners