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Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk say human population not nearly big enough: ‘If we had a trillion humans, we would have at any given time a thousand Mozarts’ (finance.yahoo.com)
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[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (6 children)

why do we need a thousand mozarts ?

why would we look to those that can never get enough to understand what it means to be satisfied ?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (5 children)

The more highly intelligent people you have, the faster the rate of breakthroughs, provided they have access to tools and education.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

prove it

or rather prove to me that you are not laying the tracks to supporting eugenics

prove that it won't make a thousand Hitlers

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

You just have to track global progress as a function of global population.

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