Wei_Dai comments on Non-Malthusian Scenarios - Less Wrong

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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.