cross-posted from: https://piefed.jeena.net/post/119614
“The real benchmark is: the world growing at 10 percent,” he added. “Suddenly productivity goes up and the economy is growing at a faster rate. When that happens, we’ll be fine as an industry.”
Needless to say, we haven’t seen anything like that yet. OpenAI’s top AI agent — the tech that people like OpenAI CEO Sam Altman say is poised to upend the economy — still moves at a snail’s pace and requires constant supervision.
I think they meant the economy, not population, but still, quality comment right here.
People who don’t do math are doomed to talk nonsense. And you just used math to showcase the stupidity. Bravo, sir.
One of my pet peeves is all the people concerned about the birth rate.
We are at a time in the history of the planet where there have never existed as many homo sapiens as there are today, and that record will get broken every day for the next 20-50 years.
Of all the times to want a higher birth rate since we have existed as a species, this just ain’t the time where it makes any kind of logical sense.
About halfway through this research bender, I realized that. But I was having too much fun to stop. I justified it with–there’s really no way to sustain 10% annual economic growth without a 10% annual birth rate. You just have to have those workers, homeowners, economic entities, businesspeople, etc. being born and joining the economy.
You’re very kind. Thank you.
That’s part and parcel with our remarkably low death rate, too. In fact, our death rate is so low that our replacement rate could actually go below 2 and the population would still keep growing for a few years. That’s unprecedented through human history.
It definitely isn’t our biggest problem as a species. Either way, honestly; we don’t need to try to make it bigger or smaller.