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Increasing the population is not a shame if the average human is wealth producing. Which they are.
This is true IFF you value wealth above all other measures.
If you value net-happiness for example, it's not true.
I think if you value net-happiness it's still not a shame, although it may be a shame if you value median-preference-satisfaction.
There are arguments that valuing net-happiness IN OUR CURRENT WORLD means you'd want to increase the human population.
However, in an arbitrary world, where wealth-production correlates with human population, there's no reason to assume that net-happiness would also correlate with wealth-production.
IOW: his conclusion (it's not a shame) has a truth value that depends on value system, but his reasoning is true only if you have one, very specific, value system (you value near-future-wealth-production as your terminal value)