Comments on: Natural selection and the collapse of economic growth http://www.gnxp.com/new/2011/06/06/natural-selection-and-the-collapse-of-economic-growth/ Genetics Tue, 03 Apr 2018 05:20:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.27 By: Scourge of the Economists http://www.gnxp.com/new/2011/06/06/natural-selection-and-the-collapse-of-economic-growth/#comment-2808 Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:43:07 +0000 http://www.gnxp.com/wp/?p=1334#comment-2808 This paper simply illustrates the economists should not be allowed to comment on anything.

We know economics is wrong, because the debt crash of 2008 exposed all their thinking of the last 30 years as rubbish.

So sod off back to your den, read some demographic literature and stop applying stupidly simplistic theories to idiotic assumptions to create profoundly over-simplified “models”. It’s crap.

]]> By: Jason Collins http://www.gnxp.com/new/2011/06/06/natural-selection-and-the-collapse-of-economic-growth/#comment-2779 Sat, 17 Sep 2011 02:23:45 +0000 http://www.gnxp.com/wp/?p=1334#comment-2779 Twin studies suggest that since the demographic transition, heritability of fertility has been well above zero. Some people respond to the socioeconomic shocks differently to others.

]]> By: ruth http://www.gnxp.com/new/2011/06/06/natural-selection-and-the-collapse-of-economic-growth/#comment-2778 Fri, 16 Sep 2011 17:59:03 +0000 http://www.gnxp.com/wp/?p=1334#comment-2778 so number of children is due to “genotype”? funny, i thought it was largely dependent on socioecnomoic and cultural factors. but don’t mind me, i’m from a dying genetic branch (my great-grandmother hat seven children, my grandmother had one and i have none — lots of mutations going on there apparently).
mind you i’m not saying that current trends in differential reproduction are unproblematic. but if your argument hinges on premises this flawed, nobody who knows anything about population will take you seriously.

]]> By: Abelard Lindsey http://www.gnxp.com/new/2011/06/06/natural-selection-and-the-collapse-of-economic-growth/#comment-2666 Mon, 20 Jun 2011 19:11:33 +0000 http://www.gnxp.com/wp/?p=1334#comment-2666 But both models reach the same conclusion: that modernity is self-destroying,

No, its not. It just has to move on to the next step that consists of transhumanism, radical life extension and space colonization; possibly with eugenics mixed in.

]]> By: bgc http://www.gnxp.com/new/2011/06/06/natural-selection-and-the-collapse-of-economic-growth/#comment-2652 Wed, 08 Jun 2011 09:48:03 +0000 http://www.gnxp.com/wp/?p=1334#comment-2652 I made a similar but non-quantitative argument but using the effect of intelligence on child mortality rates.

http://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2011/05/child-death-and-demographic-change-and.html

But both models reach the same conclusion: that modernity is self-destroying, and we are currently en route to a return to zero growth agrarian societies (and the Malthusian trap).

]]> By: Olave d'Estienne http://www.gnxp.com/new/2011/06/06/natural-selection-and-the-collapse-of-economic-growth/#comment-2651 Wed, 08 Jun 2011 00:30:59 +0000 http://www.gnxp.com/wp/?p=1334#comment-2651 Best and most frightening article I have read in some time. (Also very concise. Bravo.)

]]> By: Mike http://www.gnxp.com/new/2011/06/06/natural-selection-and-the-collapse-of-economic-growth/#comment-2647 Mon, 06 Jun 2011 13:57:08 +0000 http://www.gnxp.com/wp/?p=1334#comment-2647 I like your plot summary of Idiocracy, but I seem to remember it ending more positively.

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