Discussion about this post

User's avatar
Benjamin Hare's avatar

Typo in second sentence. Should be: ... is that if there are [no] humans, there's no humanity.

Expand full comment
J.K. Lund's avatar

Gale, the major argument against a falling population, one that I have made myself: ( https://www.lianeon.org/p/we-dont-have-enough-people ) is that more people means greater overall “computational power” to solve problems.

But fertility rates began falling just as we invented the microprocessor and they continue to fall as our machines get smarter. This makes me wonder if this fear could be unfounded, especially with AI able to do much of the thinking for us. The human population could fall while total “compute" keeps on rising. I don't know, just food for thought.

Expand full comment
4 more comments...

No posts