there's also the overpopulation issue if people don't die and all stay here
Linda Nagata, in her sci-fi books, had one solution for these kind of societal issues that arise from (pseudo-)immortality: if you choose to do the radical life-extending treatment, that's fine, but you're no longer allowed to live on Earth, you'll have to live somewhere else
On the contrary, this will fix the population issue. Birth rates are going down.
Sorry, but I don't think there's any 'population issue'.
There's nothing wrong if global human population is lower than nowadays.
No? Western countries are below the replacement rate. Basically ageing out of existence. But you think there is no problem.
it's perfectly normal for ecosystems near carrying capacity to taper off population growth (there's increasingly more conflicts, competition for resources, etc), it means the population number will be stable, not that it will necessarily drop by much
Yeah, that could be also another important factor.
But maybe extending the human life would also extend when we have kids, so it doesn't mean birth rate increases necessarily.
Great, let's invent antigravity and explore the cosmos
now we're talking let's get on it !!!
Let Nostr and freedom tech become the home for researching UAP and "fringe" scientific subjects.
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