MrMind comments on Open thread, Apr. 24 - Apr. 30, 2017

MrMind 27 Apr 2017 14:51 UTC
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I think you’re off by several orders of magnitude.

With some caveat, it turns out I was :-O

After the initial period of adjustment, exactly which complexity will North America be unable to produce because it doesn’t have enough people?

That’s exactly the question I was asking. And “After the initial period of adjustment” does all the work of carry out your argument, so...
- Lumifer 27 Apr 2017 15:06 UTC
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  That’s exactly the question I was asking
  
  Well then, the answer is “none”.
  
  And “After the initial period of adjustment” does all the work of carry out your argument
  
  No, it doesn’t. Are we talking about the minimum size of a more-or-less steady-state high-tech (hyphen-love!) civilization? or are we talking about the minimum size of a seed population from which a high-tech civilization can reconstruct itself while, presumably, growing in the process?