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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>…</b>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] FW: How fun could doom intelligent life to a blissful extinction<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>>…Some people - not everyone by any extent, but a significant enough fraction of people - find it fun to have and raise children. In this scenario, perhaps only they would create further generations, but they are enough that further generations would continue to be created…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sure, but it could be that successive generations get smaller and smaller.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Adrian, consider the thought experiment with the two bins: those who believe that the purpose of human life is to create and raise the next generation and those who do not believe that.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In general, those who do not believe that have fewer genetic offspring, which gives a long term advantage to the life creators. But the non-life creators have a memetic advantage: it is way easier to afford the good things in this life without offspring. So… the non-lifers bring lifers over from the lifer bin to the non-lifer bin, while the lifers create more lifers.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If you think it over, it becomes clearer why there is such a severe culture war that generally pits the lifers against the non-lifers.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>