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Yet behind each bread and butter eater there is a mind. Maltusian limits are only limits when the incremental human produces helps humanity extract a lesser rat
by 3pt14159 15y ago
Yet behind each bread and butter eater there is a mind. Maltusian limits are only limits when the incremental human produces helps humanity extract a lesser ratio from what is to what could be. With the information age upon us I do not believe this is the case.
I was in an engineering class called "sustainable development" at Waterloo and got into an argument with my professor about a "maximum human population". My point, that I still hold to this day, was that the average extra human will increase our capacity for more humans by more than one. Whether it is from space cities or virtual realities we are not a virus that the movie The Matrix portrays us to be. We will expand to the stars, the sea, the deep earth, and other realities; whether they be on silicon chips or other dimensions. Just wait until Gataca comes or mind-computer interfaces. The average IQ in 2011 terms will be 150.