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Melodic_Manager_9555 t1_ja2ffo8 wrote

Reply to comment by Five_Decades in The 2030s are going to be wild by UnionPacifik

Population will not change. The population depends on tradition. It also depends on women's education and the availability of contraception. These things are not going to change radically.

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imlaggingsobad t1_ja2itpl wrote

I would bet against this. I think we will have way less marriage, less relationships, less sex, less kids.

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Melissaru t1_ja2oocu wrote

I agree. It’s already trending that way and I think AGI could push it even further direction. Only time will tell.

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SurroundSwimming3494 t1_ja3tp2g wrote

That's honestly super sad.

And some people actually look forward to such a future?

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SurroundSwimming3494 t1_ja4dfju wrote

You don't think the decline of relationships, intimacy, and having children is sad?

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H0sh1z0r4 t1_ja4mup0 wrote

not everyone likes to interact with people. let them have the option to choose

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ccnmncc t1_ja5w6wd wrote

People will still have relationships and intimacy, just not exclusively in the traditional sense. Fewer people marrying and procreating does not mean less joy overall.

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imlaggingsobad t1_ja5qbb3 wrote

Culture and traditions change over time. I don't think there will be a loss of intimacy. There will be new forms of intimacy. There will be more options. In today's world people feel pressured to marry at 30 and have kids by 35. I personally think that's a little antiquated. In the future I can imagine people being very independent, care-free, more bold, more experimental way into their 40s. If you empower people and give them more opportunities, then you'll get much more variance in how people live their lives.

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Five_Decades t1_ja491a6 wrote

Its hard to say. The main reasons people don't have kids is lack of free time, low quality of life, and lack of finances. A world with rampant machine intelligence should change all of those limiting factors.

Also a post singularity world would likely be an interplanetary and interstellar civilization so there would be far more territory to live on.

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EndTimer t1_ja3rqvq wrote

I'm honestly not sure if they meant human population, given the context. If human level intelligence can run on the future's equivalent of an IoT device (a pretty large assumption, granted), there may be a LOT of AI people even as humans decline.

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