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Yes, optimization of the technology we use to produce food is exactly the answer.
by throwaway3306a 2y ago
Yes, optimization of the technology we use to produce food is exactly the answer.
- mistrial9 2y agono, there is not a net shortage of food, system-wide. It is easy to spot a naive answer because the vast productivity of basic foodstuff is not widely known, nor intuitive.
- throwaway3306a 2y agoI am well aware that the productivity is not "bad" and that there isn't a net shortage. That doesn't imply we don't need the improvement, or that it won't have a significant impact. I'd refrain from calling people naive. Farmers would call your approach naive as they know that every promile of productivity counts and can make or break their investment. As you said, this is very unintuitive and it's hard to imagine how much can a tiny increase of productivity at the base level change at the output - but it really is a lot.
- mistrial9 2y ago> I'd refrain from calling people naive. agree, that is why I wrote "the answer is naive", not a quality of a person writing the comment.