How Many People Should We Have

🌱 Seed — captured, not yet written up.

An essay-to-write from 2016. The population question, treated head-on: how many people should we have, and how do we reason about it without sliding into either denial or authoritarianism. Related: the open questions on How have the number of intentional communities (raw number, total members etc) fluctuated over time? Is it growing? Was and The wages of naievete - What examples are there where near-term good intentions (lack of toughness) resulted in lots of.