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You're nuts. > 1. Growing humans on industrial scale in bio-reactors. Government+AI would take care of raising them. Basically a cyber-communism. Probably coul
by tivert 3y ago
You're nuts.
> 1. Growing humans on industrial scale in bio-reactors. Government+AI would take care of raising them. Basically a cyber-communism. Probably could happen in China.
"Probably could happen in China." It's about 1000 times more likely China will just crank up the carrots and sticks until their reproduction rate recovers. Right now they're going with carrots and propaganda, but unlike the West, they don't have any qualms about sticks.
They could probably solve the problem (in the medium term) by kicking women out of the workforce (or implementing a low glass ceiling) along with heavy fines for childlessness.
Quit reading sci-fi.
> 2. Replacing/surpassing humans with AI+robots completely. Then reproducing is as easy as scaling up a K8S cluster. Seems that we're heading towards it.
That's just the fantasy of weirdo tech fetishists (who are in disproportionately great supply in SV and on HN). Not going to happen unless some psycho billionaire manages to build a robot army.
Quit reading sci-fi.
> 3. Reverting progress. Could happen anyway via some apocalypse scenario. But also could be deliberate, like Neo-Amish or something.
"Progress" is a myth. There's no direction to history. Even if current social trends continue, at least with sub-replacement reproduction, there will be selection against them and an inflection point after which things start to go in a different direction, though perhaps it will take a couple hundred years to get there.
Quit reading sci-fi.
- xpl 3y ago> Not going to happen unless some psycho billionaire manages to build a robot army. It isn't about a robot revolt. It is about slowly pushing humans out of economy, until we're not economic actors anymore, because we're uncompetitive. Combined with rapid depopulation, many generations after, there will be no carbon based economy anymore. Everything will be owned and driven by silicon-based profit-seeking self-improving autonomous entities, rapidly expanding all over in space at a significant fraction of speed of light (the "grabby alien" thing). It might happen very gradually, over many decades (or even centuries). But why wouldn't it? Yeah, I might need to quit reading sci-fi. But many of our sci-fi predictions became reality recently.