[ExI] Birthrate falling worldwide - not just in the developed nations

[Adrian Tymes]

On Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 10:29 AM efc--- via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> I think, those are the most common reasons when thinking back to people
> I know with 0 or 1 child in a fairly rich country with social security
> and day care services funded by the government.
>
> I wonder if evolution, after a pause, will adjust for and naturally make
> sure that the ones who do survive have a stronger sense of caring and a
> need to procreate?
>

Any evolution that happens today - which would necessarily have to happen
on a much faster timescale than traditional evolution - would have to take
into account governments and technology.

Which is why I inquired about possible increases in government-funded
largely-artificial child raising.  This does extend to artificial child
making: not necessarily human cloning, but extending IVF and artificial
wombs to the point that no human mother ever carries certain babies,
possibly eventually a majority of babies in certain areas, whether or not
the people who donated the sperm and egg are involved in raising the child
after the artificial womb's direct involvement is complete.

(There are of course sci-fi depictions of such societies.  I was thinking
about one such case in a certain popular media franchise when this thread
came up.)
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