timtyler comments on If it looks like utility maximizer and quacks like utility maximizer... - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 11 June 2009 08:48:08PM *  -1 points [-]

Re: So people are really horrible at maximizing number of their offspring in our modern environment with birth control and limitless resources.

Which people? There are about 6,783,421,727 people on the planet - there has evidently been lots of highly-successful baby-making recently by many members of the population.

Similarly, resources are not "limitless". With limitless resources, winning the lottery would make no difference. Most humans have always been resource-limited.