In the absence of harsh Malthusianism, dysgenic process dominates. Historical optimism is simple error.
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Replying to @Outsideness @NoamJStein
... To close the loop neatly, it's only necessary to recognize that a sufficiently advanced dysgenic process will bring harsh Malthusianism back.
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Replying to @Outsideness @NoamJStein
... Meta-Malthusianism has never been seriously discredited (but only swept under the carpet).
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Replying to @Outsideness @NoamJStein
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What's meta-Malthusianism
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it seems to be the abstraction of Malthus principle of population. instead of applying directly (populations reach the carrying capacity of their environment) they apply through a loop (populations lose the ability to raise the carrying capacity as the latter rises)
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At that point haven't we really left the domain of the explicitly Malthusian question - exponential population growth vs. linear food yields - and entered the broader eco question (can the earth-system sustain planetary industrialization)?
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That isn't the Meta-Malthusian point, at all. It's that improvement in the human environment leads directly to human biological deterioration, which drags things back to the Malthusian limit. ...
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Replying to @Outsideness @EBBerger and
... "Malthusian relaxation" is a near synonym for dysgenics, which indicates that the point is actually widely understood.
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... If "humanity has a chance at all" it can only be by not converting productivity into relaxation (which is hard, in every sense). ...
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... "Capitalism" stringently described could actually mean something very like that, but then people understandably get upset about it. ...
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Replying to @Outsideness @EBBerger and
... "Capitalism means that productivity improvements get Red Queened in a way that never pulls the species out of hell." -- If only, but yes, it should.
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very Puritan indeed.
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