Wei_Dai comments on Non-Malthusian Scenarios - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Wei_Dai 26 September 2009 06:50:30AM 2 points [-]

Yes, I think to a first approximation it's equally hard to have confidence in either of those predictions. Which is why I'm not arguing for "future people will be very rich" but rather that Robin may be too confident in "future people will be very poor".