James_Miller comments on Justifiable Erroneous Scientific Pessimism - Less Wrong

14 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 08 May 2013 08:37PM

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Comment author: James_Miller 09 May 2013 04:46:34PM 3 points [-]

But I believe that from the point of view of maximizing the per person wealth of the United States and Western Europe the population growth rate has been much, much too low since the industrial revolution. (I admittedly have no citations to back this up.)

Comment author: gwern 09 May 2013 05:02:05PM 1 point [-]

Maybe. That's not the same thing as what you said initially, though.