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		pixl97 on March 18, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Testing GPT 4's code-writing capabilities with som... Agriculture is still automating and the population has increased what, 4x since then

protomolecule on March 18, 2023 [–]

The US population increased about 15x in that period and one of the major reasons for that is the increase of productivity in agriculture [0]. Higher productivity created more demand.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Revolution

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