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an inevitable future, the sooner we embrace this concept the better. In fact, lab grown humans may be the only humane way to reverse the population decline whic
by hunglee2 4y ago
an inevitable future, the sooner we embrace this concept the better. In fact, lab grown humans may be the only humane way to reverse the population decline which seems to track with economic development
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- endisneigh 4y agoWhy would this be the solution? Global infertility isn’t the primary cause of people declining to have children.
- tgv 4y agoIt also correlates positively with resource consumption.
- midoridensha 4y agoPeople don't need to consume resources the wasteful way they do today. People don't need to live like Americans with SUVs and giant McMansions with wasteful yards.
- rubyfan 4y agoI am curious why you think reversing population decline is desirable?
- chii 4y agoit might be that as tech and economy move towards more automation, there'd be fewer and fewer need for large numbers of humans for labour.
- midoridensha 4y agoIf you want innovation and a human society that's advancing rather than stagnating, you need a large population, not one that's rapidly shrinking. You're not going to get a society where everyone is super-smart and highly productive, at least without genetic engineering making humans into something they currently aren't. It takes a lot of people to get innovation, because only a tiny fraction of the population creates any innovation (and many innovations come from people who only create that one notable thing). The way things are going, eventually there just won't be any humans, only automation serving an extinct society.