SforSingularity comments on Non-Malthusian Scenarios - Less Wrong

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Comment author: SforSingularity 26 September 2009 05:35:11PM 1 point [-]

"Singleton

A world government or superpower imposes a population control policy over the whole world."

  • it has to be stable essentially forever. It seems to me that no human government could achieve this, because of the randomness of human nature. Therefore, only an AI would suffice.
Comment author: Wei_Dai 27 September 2009 07:02:02AM 0 points [-]

it has to be stable essentially forever

Not necessarily. A singleton could come to power, genetically engineer humanity with a fertility cap, then fall. In the long run, evolution will probably find a way around such a cap, but in the mean time another singleton could arise and reset the clock.

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