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57 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 15 February 2010 07:58AM

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Comment author: Karl_Smith 17 February 2010 03:10:02PM 2 points [-]

Well thats of course not right. The primary loss in dropping an H-bomb on NYC is the loss of human life - both in a moral and an economic sense.

Here is a point to consider. Over the last 100 years the population of the earth has increased by 5 billion. We have created new places for all of those people to live and work. And that was done with a population much smaller than we have today. Over the next 100 years we may add 3 billion more and we will need place for those people to live and work.

Its not immediately clear that the costs of building all of this in a new location is that huge relatively speaking.