Any thoughts on age reversal to conquer population collapse?
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Population collapse 🤣
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What's funny?
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The notion of population collapse that the self-professed genius Musk keeps banging on about.
He might know a bit about engineering but demographics & pandemics are definitely not his strong suits...
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To clarify: it's obviously a possibility but a static one to a large extent (look at what China is doing ATM) & also a smaller global human population but with higher quality of life shouldn't be something to fear.
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Has nothing to do with musk. Musk isn't the only person describing this. It is pretty well know. Covid has exacerbated the problem..
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Musk bangs on about it frequently. It's not something worth worrying about between the probability of it happening & also the fact that it would result in a better outcome for the planet & mankind. Far bigger real issues to concern ourselves with atm...
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I disagree. We are an aging population. Unless we figure out how to get people to age better and remain productive and healthy in later life, the next generations will be caring for all of us sick old unproductive people. That takes away their focus from progressing things
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I think you are probably putting too little weighting on:
- automation
- voluntary euthanasia
- government incentives to increase the birth rate.
China has 1.4bn people and has relaxed the birth rate and there is talk about it starting to promote births. Geometric growth.
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But the point is, it's a possible scenario in a 100 years time and it will be well signalled before it becomes entrenched. There are far more pressing issues that are real, not 'possible' we need to focus on now.
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I agree there are lots of issues. You might be putting too much faith in automation. This isn't a 100 yr problem. Without healthy aging there will be more old people than young very soon. Less than 50 yrs away
I'm not putting too much faith in automation alone - it's also not something that is going to happen overnight - the minute population numbers show meaningful falls governments will step in with financial incentives to promote births. Has happened in the past, will again.
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I dont think fin incentives will solve the problem when most the data suggests abundance. Increase in wealth, education, and intelligence etc promote the decline.I think we need to really invest in healthy life extension. Most decisions we make are based on when we think we die.
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