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Pete Drouhard's avatar

Perhaps the decline in fertility is a society-wide unconscious realization that we’re all going to live much longer and so replacing those that passed isn’t as much a key priority

Cremieux's avatar

That's an optimistic, incorrect view. Check out the gap between ideal and realized fertility (ideal being predictive, especially in shocks!): https://www.cremieux.xyz/p/fertility-in-an-ideal-world

David Roman's avatar

Given the rise in AI capabilities, I honestly think we should temper our obsession with living forever and focusing efforts on creating an all-powerful AI that eventually becomes godly enough to resurrect the dead. A much better alternative to spending centuries in a decrepit body, worrying about cholesterol levels.

Charles Powell's avatar

You never quit

Unbearable.