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> populations are supposed to reach a maxima. This is an assumption. In nature, a population reaches a maxima but it's a survivorship bias metric. Populations
by chii 3y ago
> populations are supposed to reach a maxima.
This is an assumption.
In nature, a population reaches a maxima but it's a survivorship bias metric. Populations that _didn't_ level off struggled to find the now scarce food, and died off too fast to re-populate, or some other reason died off.
Humans are the only species so far to be able to exploit more resources as population grew, and have the technology to prevent such a collapse (by constantly expanding the resource acquisition game). In the future, i would expect space exploration to be space resource collection. Therefore, we will not reach maxima because there's no such thing. No natural force should be able to kill off humans or their expansion.
- tsunagatta 3y ago> No natural force should be able to kill off humans or their expansion. I will believe this once a way is found to reverse entropy.
- NemoNobody 3y agoI don't think we will get there while we are burdened en masse by the 9-5... but, if entropy itself were ever to be the "last problem left" - I've no doubt that we would solve that problem also. We are far closer to literally living Star Trek lives (without space travel) than we are away from it. Before millennials die we will hear terms like "post scarcity" - assuming we live long enough and society doesn't fall apart.