This would actually be a huge boon for students looking for a research mentor or PI. I spent months trawling through google and WoS looking through faculty and it was a gigantic mess trying to separate out who was who. The professors of Asian origin were by far the worst to get through as they had 200 other guys with the same name boosting their publication counts to absurd levels. Its made worse by the habit of moving around the country and name abbreviations. Algorithms and narrowing the search criteria could only get you so far since you still have thousands of Chens working in biochemistry at the same time. This could make an hour long search instantaneous.

Obviously no one wants a population will kill everyone but its debatable whether we truly are there. But if we could overcome the environmental obstacles a bigger population with productive people is certainly better than a smaller one. So we should ultimately be working for a population that can sustain growth rather than one that simply shrinks.

Population growth should be seen as an extremely powerful tool with obstacles to overcome rather than an inherently bad thing. A larger vibrant population of (intelligent productive) people means more science, technology, goods, art, and everything else we need as a society and most importantly survival. A shrinking or stagnant population will lead to doom.

The only place you are truly free to be yourself the only sanctuary where you can do whatever you want is your mind. Everywhere else no matter what you are forced to a degree to mold your behavior and do what the rapidly changing and fickle whims of society and your 'betters' want you to do. But you don't have to think what they want you to think. Invading the mind is dangerous, once we sacrifice this boundary, you will have to begin to think what others want you to think. There will be no more privacy, there will be no place where you are free to be yourself, and no place to rest.