Malthusianism is an early form of basilisk. its enduring popularity, despite batting .000, comes from its promise that *somebody* is going to have to choose what kind of people there needs to be fewer of — who of course is going to be someone wise enough to embrace Malthusianism
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This is why I champion mediocrity. It is a way of solving for survivability in a world shaped by complex emergent homeostasis mechanisms whose outcomes are effectively random with respect to our predictive ability. Antifragility is a conservative subset of mediocrity strategies.
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In the EEA, actual catastrophes, especially predictable catastrophes, were essentially nonexistent. The genes see it all as political power games and reacts accordingly. In this case they're right, too.
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