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Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk say human population not nearly big enough: ‘If we had a trillion humans, we would have at any given time a thousand Mozarts’ (finance.yahoo.com)
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[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 6 points 9 months ago

It isn't very interesting to speculate about a trillion-human future when we're so close to a post-human future. Plus, Mozart was the product of his genes and his environment; both can be manipulated to create some process with a higher yield of Mozarts than ordinary human reproduction provides.