Elon has a similar take on the importance of fertility. Both him and TFA focus on the upside of more humans and not the downside. For every human capable of advancing science, or even just engineering in one of the increasingly specialized industries, there will be a hundred humans who cannot. And this ratio only gets worse as we go.
Those who cannot will have to work in the shrinking market for manual labor or non-innovative white collar work. As scientific progress accelerates, the number of these jobs goes to zero.
Just attacking the problem with quantity of scientific minds creates a byproduct of excess suffering in the form of "waste" humans. Losers of the same genetic lottery that is creating the precious scientific minds that we can't get enough of.
Those who cannot will have to work in the shrinking market for manual labor or non-innovative white collar work. As scientific progress accelerates, the number of these jobs goes to zero.
Just attacking the problem with quantity of scientific minds creates a byproduct of excess suffering in the form of "waste" humans. Losers of the same genetic lottery that is creating the precious scientific minds that we can't get enough of.