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gwern comments on Justifiable Erroneous Scientific Pessimism - Less Wrong Discussion

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

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Comment author: gwern 09 May 2013 03:32:02PM -1 points [-]

Your reply seems completely irrelevant to the Malthusian point that population growth can always exceed total factor production, and so it is population growth - or lack of growth - which dominates and determines per capita.