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Jiro comments on If interventions changing population size are cheap, they may be the best option independent of your population ethics - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Jiro 15 August 2014 09:36:47PM 0 points [-]

It could be, e.g., that for some reason it's really easy to get people to have more children and really hard to get them to have fewer, or vice versa. But it seems really unlikely.

Seems really likely to me. For instance, having more children is associated with poverty. It's a lot easier to make many people poor than to make many people rich.

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