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Ent3rpris3 t1_j22ww4l wrote

Reply to comment by mikee8989 in I have a question about generational ships. by bigmikemcbeth756

It is an interesting approach - you're expected to have children. Like...I struggle to find a partner right now and to think how I could live on a generation ship with that requirement looming over my head. And would being single disqualify me outright?

Consider a society where every person setting the rules for 20-30 years is a parent with a partner who have at least 2 children; Theoretically with young, similarly aged children to that of their peers. That kind of dynamic would be interesting to see how it influences lifestyle and government far down the line.

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Hunter62610 t1_j22z8xx wrote

With current advancements in artificial wombs, I wouldn't be surprised if that isn't a problem. Children will be born, and people do like to be teachers. Also, I wouldn't be surprised if AI tech makes the Humans just kinda unneeded.

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Wakandanbutter t1_j23912z wrote

I was about to this exactly this. Just like I’m HALO without AI YOU’RE not getting shit done in under 500 years. They’re probably gonna do most of the work with people around to do hard math should an emergency happen. Also thankfully they’d probably have memory to store all of earth’s data so you’d have shit tons of stuff to read and watch. Hell they’d probably start making their own stuff

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Beef_Whalington t1_j239dsi wrote

.... it's pretty unlikely that any true ai will require humans around to do math for it

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sevenwheel t1_j2308ka wrote

I would expect that a generational ship would only accept married couples for that very reason.

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Cutecumber_Roll t1_j231jnr wrote

Maintaining good genetic diversity in a small population is easier without monogamy. Marriages might remain just for social stability and maintaining traditions but I wouldn't expect it necessarily.

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thexbin t1_j237zbf wrote

You also have to maintain a minimal viable population genetically. You must have large genetic variability. I think it would be required that you would need to have lots of children with lots of partners.

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bigmikemcbeth756 OP t1_j22yw1i wrote

That's because it's so much competition if you're on a ship it's so much less

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