niceguyanon comments on Blind Spot: Malthusian Crunch - Less Wrong

4 Post author: bokov 18 October 2013 01:48PM

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Comment author: niceguyanon 18 October 2013 07:03:02PM 3 points [-]

Not sure if you were addressing me particularly but in case you did, I didn't downvote you. I actually found your claim, that 4 billion is back in the safe zone, to be thought provoking because that idea is novel to me personally, so thanks for that, but I don't have an opinion on it yet.

Comment author: bokov 18 October 2013 08:12:27PM 1 point [-]

Notice that, after doing my homework and seeing that the range of estimates of carrying capacity were in the range of 4-16 billion with a median of 10 billion, I revised my own estimate upward from 2 billion. Although, being at carrying capacity doesn't sound particularly safe either, just safer.

Comment author: drethelin 18 October 2013 09:33:59PM 2 points [-]

he can't really notice it since you edited it away