Re:No Implants Needed for Precise Control Deep into the Brain
by sharpneli on Monday October 26, 2020 @04:25PM
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Even with immortality everyone can have one child. It takes two to make one. And the infinite series 1+1/2+1/4+1/8... converges to 2. So the population would just double.
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Re:No Implants Needed for Precise Control Deep into the Brain
by burlesona on Monday October 26, 2020 @04:47PM
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Perhaps but that makes a rather odd assumption that every pair of adults would be allowed to select one mate with which to have one child.
Supposing everyone obeyed that, some number of generations in the future, which would be a blink of an eye compared to eternal immortality, you would end up with a strange selection problem of there being very few people in the most recent generations, and most of them having a large overlap in ancestors.