Autoplectic wrote:
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> On 7/3/05, Miles Jackson <cqmv at pdx.edu> wrote:
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> > If there is a significant rise in population without a commensurate
> > rise in innovation, the population as a whole must be less innovative,
> > yes?
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> Trivially true, yet if the very sucess of the innovation is the main
> cause of the significant rise in population it does seem odd to say an
> innovation caused a fall in innovative activity.
Is a high rate of innovation necessarily desirable? My impulse is to say that the lower the rate of innovation the better. For one thing, that would lower the rate of unintended consequences -- perhaps?
Carrol