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In an infinite world, expected reproductions would be a good thing to maximize. An organism that had 3^^^^3 babies would vastly increase the spread of it's genes, and so it would be worth taking very very low probability bets. But in a finite world all such bets will lose, leaving behind only organisms which don't take such bets, in the vast majority of worlds.
Not quite, such an organism is likely to devastate its ecosystem in one generation and die out soon after that.
a reason why any amont of sustainable growth is preferable to a large oneshot.