Past projections of human population growth were generally overblown, because nobody expected e.g. China's population to (officially) peak this year.
Meanwhile world population growth peaked in the late 60s and has been in decline ever since. The 21st century will likely see the global population reaching its limit at less than 11bln.
That's still a lot, but not nearly as much as 16bln.
If 8 or more story-falls are fatal...
8-Town limits hi-rises to 8-Stories
20-Town limits hi-rises to 20-Stories
Which Town and what Height of Buildings would you rather be a tenant of?
...I don't know about Human Population, but I know that "more code" is certainly not "better code", just as "more sub-systems" does not mean "more quality of code"
Stop embarrassing yourself. You started by talking about population growth in a post about a kid's cancer, and now you are continuing with making stupid analogies that barely make sense.
Getting rid of cancer will alleviate a huge source of suffering and despair and it will do nothing of consequence to the population. Even if it did we should not care.
Meanwhile world population growth peaked in the late 60s and has been in decline ever since. The 21st century will likely see the global population reaching its limit at less than 11bln.
That's still a lot, but not nearly as much as 16bln.