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shiandowyesterday at 1:05 PM1 replyview on HN

You'd rather lower quality of land life to enable growth?

Or were you not responding to the argument that avoiding pollution is typical degrowth talk?


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ACCount37yesterday at 5:33 PM

No. I'm saying that if the population is set to fall, we can crank resource spend per person all the way up, and enable growth that way. With a little side benefit of QoL improvements.

Which requires a massive jump in labor productivity, mind. But if the optimistic takes on AI are right, such a thing is not impossible.