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juliawise comments on Dead Child Currency - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: juliawise 28 October 2015 08:12:27PM *  0 points [-]

If the demographic transition continues, I'm not too worried about Malthusian scenarios. It seems that people who are less worried about their children being wiped out by disease have fewer children.

Another option is interventions that improve lives without saving them, such as deworming.