to avoid (unlikely) tampering, I've closed this half a day early.

looks like sufficient consensus says that "Earth" is the definition of "The World". I personally use a broader definition and think interpreting the riddle as a Fermi Paradox question would have been fascinating, but I will constrain it to the boundaries of Earth!

To me "The World" = a local time and existence

@AnilJason hmm. reasonable! I see how that doesn't fit in here, but that's also hard to constrain to the thought puzzle

The world != The World

You made ambiguity by having different writing in the riddle and in this market.

Just like earth != Earth

@KongoLandwalker hmm really? I don't discern the difference really with World and world. With Earth and earth it makes sense because earth can mean soil

@Stralor in fiction "world" is often used for planet or for dimension.

I would argue that for the meaning of "the whole of reality" (like in wiki screenshot below) we should use The World, analogous to The Earth, because it is single and unique.

@KongoLandwalker that's fair. still, the trendline here so far is that voters think even "The World" should be just Earth

@Stralor the riddle has it with small letter. And this poll with big.

@Stralor

Prediction market: what is the average density of earth?

Poll: what is the average density of Earth?

Extremely divergent answers.

@KongoLandwalker right but in this case it doesn't seem to matter. even with that difference the trendline seems to be against the case that "world" = planet and "World" = the whole of reality, since this asks about World and still heavily leans planet

@Stralor still, it's a good point. I can change one or the other but I'm not sure that would be any more fair at this point

@Stralor can you screenshot?

@KongoLandwalker

@Stralor Changing anything could shuffle everything.

@KongoLandwalker it's a mistake that I did them differently, and I definitely would have consciously chosen one or the other but I'm trying to not put my hand on the scale much

@Stralor I would say do not correct. People who read the description could have noticed the one letter difference and concluded it insignificant for the meaning in this case.