Oddbean new post about login | logout Yes, but will it happen early enough to prevent the population from hitting the demographic point of no return? Do we really want to just wait around and see?
I'm not. I'm going to build myself a slice of heaven and pass it on to someone who will keep building street in gone. At that point, unless a whole battalion of troops show up with all the goodies, or a mesh-networked killbot drone squad shows up, the rest of the world can be ignored and it will be hard, but vastly better.
I read somewhere that one time in human history the population shrank to 1200 people. And yet, here we are ...