Comment by Tanzoro on Please Do Fight the Hypothetical · 2022-08-30T03:54:47.344Z · LW · GW

Maybe I am just reading this wrong sense I am new to this world of reasoning but you talking of malthus and his theory seem to be off. I I remember correctly Malthus's theory states that agriculture will grow linearly while the human population will grow exponentially. We can prove Maulthuses theory wrong with the Green Revolution (when humans started seeing large benefits of genetic modification) while population has grown exponentially so has the number of bushels of grain an acre of land can produce. I may be wrong about the meaning of this post but it seems to have a lot of questions towards an already disproven theory (Mauthuses theory). Feel free to correct me because this is my first time hearing about Mere Addition Paradox.