matt comments on Non-Malthusian Scenarios - Less Wrong

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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: matt 05 October 2009 08:42:52PM *  2 points [-]

This is like most of the responses to Robin on OB; extreme examples of wishful thinking.

Singleton isn't. Robin both hates it and doesn't think it's likely. It makes me very uncomfortable... but a Singleton is clearly not subject to evolutionary pressures.