[ExI] homo sapiens as endangered species

[Stefano Vaj]

On 2 June 2011 18:58, Anders Sandberg <anders at aleph.se> wrote:

> When I saw the subject of this thread I thought it was more about xrisks. I
> have been tinkering with some minimum viable population models of H.
> sapiens. If we are ever near extinction, it is pretty tough to maintain a
> population - big mammals are tricky.
>

I have some vague recollection of this notion, but do not remember the
reasoning behind it.

Why a few fertile individuals are actually not enough?

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Stefano Vaj
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