Interesting Durant provides context for the Leges Iulia of 18-17BC, specifically Lex Julia de maritandis ordinibus Guess they were having a fertility crisis . . . wow This is an old problem with no solution but barbarism apparently
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Charles Stross wrote a novel about this, Saturn's Children, wasn't even half bad Follows a gynoid courtesan around in a post-human solar system Humans didn't get killed, they just kind of stopped reproducing Seems . . . kind of spooky in a woh-this-could-happen way, now
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Anyway the demographic transition seems almost universal in human history when there's urbanization at scale and I don't know what to make of this
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Replying to @samgraver @eigenrobot
what's the tension? it's basically half of IQ shredders with the other half being cities attracting smartasses, innit?
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what a shock if it turned out to be a cyclic problem rather than one that terminates history
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