[ExI] EP posting from another list

[Keith Henson]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 6:17 AM,  William Flynn Wallace
<foozler83 at gmail.com> wrote:

(Keith)

>> The other side, improving world wide income by cheap energy from space
>> or something else, I work on.  But it's not likely to have much of an
>> effect (except on perceptions) before war takes off and seriously
>> reduces the population.
>
> I seem to recollect (which counts as once having amassed an incredible
> array of excellent studies proving my point) that wars do not in fact
> reduce population by much, and replacement tends to be quick.

This is evolutionary psychology.  Wars that happened in historical
times are almost irrelevant to gene selection in the stone age.

Rapid replacement is an indication that the historical mechanism to
keep the human population in check has been broken.

That's the second time we broke it, the first being when we got
organized enough to keep the big cats from munching on us.


Keith