In vitro gametogenesis (IVG) and artificial wombs.
I can definitely see an authoritarian regime "solving" population decline with that one, so I kinda hope we never get there.
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#123The world population is collapsing at a rapid pace. Our economic growth is based on a growing productive population. Our economic prosperity is based on a growing productive population. Different parts of the world are dealing with population collapse. Look at Japan, a xenophobic country facing population collapse. The total GDP has remain stagnant over the past 20 years. Look at UAE, a country facing population coll…
You’re missing the knowledge gained over time in your equation. You only need more people assuming that we don’t have technology that increases productivity.
I’m happy to see population numbers decrease and I’m ok with the stock market getting hit or having to make some sacrifices on lifestyle if that means a more sustainable way of living.
We keep hearing of food production issues caused by climate change. Why would we need more people? To starve them? To give them busywork? To have to figure out welfare?
I’m ok with going through shrinking pains, it should be a lesson that the fake reality we built for ourselves was not sustainable.
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#124I’ve got a second grader and myself & other parents are wondering how useful a public school education will be in 10 years when they are graduating
It never was useful, people differentiate based on the choices they make outside of school and the people they meet. Public education is there to level out the childhood trauma and normalize things. It’s a big sander that levels down.
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#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
Communism (at least in an ideal Marxist form) has no relation to equity, it’s more of a liberal concept than anything else. People use the term Communism (both upper-case and lower-case) in various ways nowadays, but Marx’s original ideal form of society was "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" The ultimate goal is to create an affluent productive society that can provide all amenities…
Yes, and this will require violence to achieve (how else can you enforce the “from each” and “to each”?) Communism has been tried. Again and again. The utopian endpoint it tires to get to is not possible. The consistent result is mass death and poverty.
OTOH systems not going as far as communism, but still with far more equitable outcomes than e.g. US system, have been tried as well and have been quite successful.
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#126Climate change is a problem.
Bret Victor did a good subdivision into sub-problems for a technologist here - which probably suits this audience:
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#127- Figuring out how to build resilient, long-lasting kinship structures capable of surviving reduced state and market capacity. This means comms platforms that are encrypted, easy to set up and use, decentralized, and safe.
- Novel food sources (we just had the four hottest days on record, in succession)
- Adversarial health care (e.g. getting an abortion in a dominionist state)
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#128We have an aging population and many places have a flat birthrate. We need to solve how to deal with this consequences. Who will care for these people? How will we deal with the consequences of flat population growth? How will we deal with the stock market's expectations of perpetual growth when the underlying population itself is not growing (and especially since productivity has also been relatively flat)?
This aging topic is very important. Re: stock markets, economies need to shift from eternal $ growth to share holder wallets, to providing equitable outcomes for all people and the planet - that will be very interesting to watch, i can’t see it going well.
Given limited resources exponential growth will always hit saturation. It is time we structure out economic systems in a way that aknowledge this reality.
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#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
While communism does have it's flaws, i would argue it has in fact never been tried.
Communism has never been tried? Could you explain a little bit more? I don't know if you are joking or lacking knowledge. Or maybe I lack some knowledge you know about
It’s a “no true Scotsman” fallacy that communists trot out to defend their failed ideology.
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#130Xanax/benzos are the most effective psych medicine, deserve to be over the counter, but can be fatally overdosed. All mental drugs and others such as chemotherapy need to be precisely targeted at limited part of an organ. 2030 4 high-NA EUV fabs will have 1.4 nano RiscV chips; rollable microLED; solid state battery. That's still not paper thin all day phones. 1 passenger, only autopilot drones should transport snakeb…
You must be joking. Xanax/Benzos are highly addictive and all they do is shove whatever problem you have for "the next day", just like alcohol. They don't treat shit.