thinking about antinatalism lately is the ultimate implication of the premises "we should 100% end life on earth"?
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Replying to @eigenrobot
yeah, antinatalism was called voluntary extinction in the 90s
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Replying to @bobpoekert
all of the suffering-oriented arguments for antinatalism I'm imagining extend nicely to animals, 90s style seemd to have an ecological bent?
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Replying to @eigenrobot
yeah, I think it was a splinter from the environmental movement
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Replying to @bobpoekert @eigenrobot
my position is that since rising welfare leads to lower birth rate for now we can focus on welfare and pop will handle itself
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Replying to @bobpoekert @eigenrobot
that'll be true probably for the rest of my life so there's no point in me asking whether having children is good
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Replying to @bobpoekert
Hopefully that pattern holds up, also hopefully we dont hit a point where rising pop level --> decreasing welfare --> positive feedback loop
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Replying to @eigenrobot
I can see that feedback loop happening at a regional level (causing civil wars and death) but I can't see it happening globally
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yeah seems unlikely, I'm just drawn to imagining bad outcomes I guess!
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