I’m not sure that it was extremely incorrect. Apart from the risk from AI, most of our other global problems are still downstream of overpopulation. The likelihood that overpopulation won’t get much worse than now doesn’t really change that, and the reasons why it won’t were not reasonably predictable at the time.
We just happened to inhabit one of the more convenient possible worlds.
I’m not sure that it was extremely incorrect. Apart from the risk from AI, most of our other global problems are still downstream of overpopulation. The likelihood that overpopulation won’t get much worse than now doesn’t really change that, and the reasons why it won’t were not reasonably predictable at the time.
We just happened to inhabit one of the more convenient possible worlds.