... There's no reference to finitude in Malthus. Only the relation between an arithmetical and geometrical progression.
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Replying to @Outsideness @Thoma_Valiant
Malthus was and is wrong. The truth is that both production and population can expand geometrically for a while, but both are limited.
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Replying to @PoisonAero @Thoma_Valiant
Malthus is trivially wrong, but profoundly right. All vital processes tend inexorably towards the limit where harsh selection applies.
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Replying to @Thoma_Valiant @Outsideness
Yeah, we are headed for a big crash unless we can become self-regulating.
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Replying to @PoisonAero @Thoma_Valiant
A "big-crash" just means we'll continue to be sculpted by natural selection, as we always have, and always will be.
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Replying to @Outsideness @Thoma_Valiant
It means the end of industrial civilization forever: an endless dark age of war, disease, and famine.
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We are always being shaped by natural selection, including now (high fertility wins), but we have a chance to regulate and select ourselves.
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Replying to @PoisonAero @Thoma_Valiant
Are there any positive grounds for belief in that humanistic conceit?
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Replying to @Outsideness @Thoma_Valiant
That we can regulate ourselves? Yes, we do regulate our behavior in other ways. We don't allow murder, for example.
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Clearly we do allow murder, because there's a murder rate.
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