[busterarm]

This is like claiming to know the future.

Nobody knows how much population growth we need. In the future we might not have enough bright minds around to solve our resource crises. We might have a global epidemic that causes us to miss critial population thresholds that severely drop our quality of life.

I think that if we want our species to escape this rock before our sun wipes us out (or sooner), people should be having kids.

[antisthenes]

> In the future we might not have enough bright minds around to solve our resource crises.

This myth/meme also needs to die. It is ignorant beyond belief.

You don't just get more geniuses when you increase population, you also have to free people from the drudgery and suffering of survival in a resource-poor environment.

Given a constant population, humanity would have fewer geniuses if our energy consumption dropped by half.

[busterarm]

Except you literally have no evidence of this.

We're experiencing less drudgery than ever experienced by humans on this planet... Our energy output to labor ratio is the greatest it has ever been... And yet there's no evidence that we're advancing exceptionally faster than previous generations.

If you view through the lens of history it is typically warfare and societal upheaval that provides the environment for significant advancement.

Let's just compare the pace of technology today to 60-100 years ago. I'm ashamed to hold up fucking cryptoshit, javascript frameworks and high volume distribution of pornography in comparison against all of THAT.