[ExI] Abundance Economy

[Adrian Tymes]

On Mon, Jan 20, 2025 at 8:12 AM BillK via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 20 Jan 2025 at 11:42, Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> >
> > So if the traditional method of increasing population is petering out,
> what's the path to substantial numbers of artificially-gestated,
> state-raised kids?
>
> That solution is too slow. It takes around 20 years to produce a human
> worker at great expense.
> In a time of AI and exponential change, 20 years is like an eternity.

Humanoid robot workers driven by AI will replace the missing human
> workforce, and that is already beginning to happen.
>

In this case, we are talking about an eternity: how to make sure the human
population increases over time.  Whether they participate in the
traditional labor force is beside the point in this particular discussion,
except as it informs their willingness and ability to procreate and raise
children.

It seems safe to predict that the Technological Singularity is unlikely to
render most humans immediately sterile, save for those scenarios that kill
most humans - which would have more immediate impacts on the total human
population.
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