CarlShulman comments on Non-Malthusian Scenarios - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: billswift 26 September 2009 10:10:47AM 1 point [-]

This is like most of the responses to Robin on OB; extreme examples of wishful thinking. None of the responses, here or there, are stable or address Robin's point that in the very long term population will probably grow until it reaches the level of subsistence.

Comment author: CarlShulman 26 September 2009 08:01:56PM 1 point [-]

Given current cosmological theory, our access to negentropy is limited, so that we probably won't get to see the effects of natural selection go to the limit as generations approach infinity.