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Why you, personally, should want a larger human population
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Why you, personally, should want a larger human population
by Jason Crawford
The ideal human population is not ‘much smaller,’ but ‘ever larger.’ … A world with a large and growing population is a dynamic world that can create and sustain progress.
The City That Can't?
by Ryan Puzycki
The City That Can’t. That’s a helluva far cry from the city’s official motto, ‘Gold in Peace, Iron in War.’
How to raise a (happy) genius
by Henry Oliver
Exceptional educations do not mean we have to choose between brilliance and happiness. The key is autonomy.
We Need Major, But Not Radical, FDA Reform
by Maxwell Tabarrok
The FDA’s failures merit a complete overhaul: Remove efficacy requirements and keep only basic safety testing and ingredient verification.
How Rich Would 1 Billion Americans Be?
by Sam Harsimony
Nobody really took idea of one billion Americans *literally*. In all the podcasts and book reviews, nobody thought to ask, ‘what would the American economy look like with 1 billion people?
What if government worked like Wikipedia?
by Elle Griffin
What if our constitution was a Wikipedia page that any of us could edit, and trusted editors could then incorporate those edits as it made sense?
Why I Don't Identify with the Progress Studies Community
by Daniel Frank
In terms of increasing human flourishing for those alive today, increasing progress is just one, among many tools, and certainly not the one with the most low-hanging fruit.
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I have written ad nauseam that we should indeed want a large population, but lately I have been considering the possibility that I am wrong.
Taking the view that population decline is something we should strive to avoid with pro-natalist policies is a bit like Malthus advocating for population controls.
Perhaps the rapid rise, and then fall, of the population is a natural part of progress? Perhaps it is no coincidence that AI and humanoid robots are emerging at just the right time….
Maybe progress doesn’t just dematerialize goods and services, but will also dematerialize the need for human physical and mental labor.