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All the anti-population growth popularity here would seem at odds with the HN population of outer space-expansionists. Elon isn’t going to have enough settlers
by hindsightbias 7y ago
All the anti-population growth popularity here would seem at odds with the HN population of outer space-expansionists.
Elon isn’t going to have enough settlers.
Perhaps another Great Filter candidate.
- toast0 7y agoIn my circles, people my age are having less children than their parents and at a later age than their parents, but for the most part, they're still reproducing. If colonists are needed, they're available, it's just a mater of incentives.
- NeedMoreTea 7y agoWe are unlikely to be sending billions in to space to set up colonies. There will be ample prospective migrants, if it ever becomes a real possibility, whether there are 100m or 10bn earthlings.
- aaomidi 7y agoBy the time we're expanding into space, we don't need humans to make babies anymore :)
- drak0n1c 7y agoTrue, population levels are no where near what is required to support cyberpunk living density, let alone multi-planet colonization. Perhaps if reproduction levels really fall off and there is a real lack of families there will eventually be some kind of public, private, or religious industry centered around creating new babies in vivo or in vitro, along with a paid surrogate and child-raising infrastructure.
- buboard 7y agoconsidering the timescales of interstellar travel, it will probably involve traveling with robots and frozen human embryos