NancyLebovitz comments on Non-Malthusian Scenarios - Less Wrong

13 Post author: Wei_Dai 26 September 2009 02:44AM

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Comment author: taw 26 September 2009 01:42:26PM 1 point [-]

Notice how little evidence we have for most human societies in history to be really close to Malthusian population bounds.

It's really incompatible with evidence unless you take "extreme long term view" like Robin, in which case it becomes essentially non-empirical.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 26 September 2009 03:35:15PM 0 points [-]

Any theories about why human populations typically don't get near Malthusian bounds?