<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 10:29 AM efc--- via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I think, those are the most common reasons when thinking back to people<br>
I know with 0 or 1 child in a fairly rich country with social security<br>
and day care services funded by the government.<br>
<br>
I wonder if evolution, after a pause, will adjust for and naturally make<br>
sure that the ones who do survive have a stronger sense of caring and a<br>
need to procreate?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>(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.)</div></div></div>