timtyler comments on Blind Spot: Malthusian Crunch - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 19 October 2013 10:19:40AM 1 point [-]

Hans Rosling makes the claim that world population will top out at around 10 billion, by simply continuing to do what we do now, educate people and let them have access to birth control.

Malthus will be counting the machines too.

Human numbers may decline during a memetic takeover, but machine numbers probably won't.