I don’t think the claim “if human population is only 560M a minor disaster could be enough to wipe out humanity” stands under scrutiny. There can be all kind of different arangement that these number of people live, wth different levels of fragility.
Imagine a universe with only 560M humans spreaded through the galaxy. Say there are only about a hundred people on every inhabited planet. However there are also bilions of aligned robots ensuring the wellbeing of these humans and capable to repopulate the humans if they die out.
Such arangement seems more protected from disasters than tens of billions of humans living on Earth in high density.
I agree. Note that 560M is more than the estimated world population around year 1350, and not even the Plague managed to wipe out humanity at that point (despite being a terrible disease with huge mortality rate in a world basically without real medical knowledge). I don’t understand what crazy kind of “minor disaster” they are thinking about...
I don’t think the claim “if human population is only 560M a minor disaster could be enough to wipe out humanity” stands under scrutiny. There can be all kind of different arangement that these number of people live, wth different levels of fragility.
Imagine a universe with only 560M humans spreaded through the galaxy. Say there are only about a hundred people on every inhabited planet. However there are also bilions of aligned robots ensuring the wellbeing of these humans and capable to repopulate the humans if they die out.
Such arangement seems more protected from disasters than tens of billions of humans living on Earth in high density.
I agree. Note that 560M is more than the estimated world population around year 1350, and not even the Plague managed to wipe out humanity at that point (despite being a terrible disease with huge mortality rate in a world basically without real medical knowledge). I don’t understand what crazy kind of “minor disaster” they are thinking about...