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Birth rates are declining below replacement levels, the one-child policy has been reversed due to its unintended consequences. Why do you think it an idea worthy of entertaining?

Thinking machines, I say no, and the genie is out of the bottle and won't be going back anyway, re: open weights, real utility, and China. We do need to have more rational discussions, eg. the doomerism is out of hand and there are some serious social implications I hear few talk about, but Ai is more about how we choose to use it than whether we will.

silverFork•33m ago

There is this fixation to have a growing population. There are people that believe that there has to be population growth to fund retirement; it doesn't work like that anymore. Pensions are paid by the same generation of people using fancasts.

The social implication will be that there will be that there will be population decline and more resources. It is not doom and gloom.

salawat•32m ago

You will do what I want because I have gone out of my way to ensure you have no other choice... But it wasn't my fault mind. Just following the incentives.

--Silicon Valley/VC

silverFork•38m ago

Birth control and abortion will be allowed for AI, LOL.

bigyabai•36m ago

I don't know where you get your news from, but this is a good sign that you should take a week off from reading it.

YrRight2PushBac•35m ago

Who exactly is going to enforce it?

beardyw•28m ago

> Is it time for a global one-child-policy

If you are from a relatively affluent nation you have a deceased birth rate. Imposing it on others is a kind of ethnic cleansing.

> and ban of thinking machines?

We don't have thinking machines yet, and typically you can't legislate against innovation.