Perhaps humanity’s greatest extinction risk is not climate change or rogue AI, but people losing interest in procreation due to finding fulfilment in the endless phantasmagoria of technogenic distractions.
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There's a powerful misanthropic social pressure to feel that population is exploding and that there being more humans is always a bad thing.
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Even as an average that's still too many because it maintains an already excessive population. It also doesn't reflect the imbalance between different countries and regions. Some places have fertility rates of 1.5 or less; others as high as 7.24. <https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN?year_high_desc=true …>
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So what? Technology is advancing and we won’t need as many people anyway.
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