RE: The Cost of Proliferation
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If we stay below replacement fertility level, there'll be fewer and fewer eyeballs to chase.
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If we stay below replacement fertility level, there'll be fewer and fewer eyeballs to chase.
It collapses eventually.
A friend was saying that one possible reason for no alien contact is that they got to a point in AI that they could immerse themselves completely, and never travel again.
There's such a human community to be found on a certain planet in a sci-fi book from a series called...wait for it... Requiem for Homo Sapiens. And in an episode of Star Gate. And I guess in many other pieces of fiction created decades ago. We're just, for some reason, chasing after some ideas of the past already proven to be bad. Or was it the inevitable evolution?
Death imitating art.
Ah, we need instances of life imitating death to complete the cycle... What aspect should we focus on? Decay? Or stagnation? Or anything else?