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Comment by chrischen2 | Hacker News Reader

Well one benefit of increasing population is that we increase the chances of geniuses being born, and increase the diversity of the population.

There's an old joke that says:

  The intellect of the planet is a constant, the population is increasing.

genius != intelligence, but still :)

All we now need is a system for harvesting those geniuses. Who knows how many Srinivasa Ramanujans the world has lost.