Eternal population growth is not a necessity for advancing civilization.
Re:A Dyson sphere around a black hole
by politician on Thursday August 19, 2021 @09:25AM
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What is the right number of unique minds?
That's an ethics question; advanced civilisations are not required to be ethical.
Re:A Dyson sphere around a black hole
by politician on Thursday August 19, 2021 @11:05AM
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I don’t see how aspiring to be an unethical civilization with a fixed number of individuals is preferable to a civilization that grows and shrinks having pockets of ethical and unethical members.
If the argument is that somehow the former is more environmentally friendly, then I don’t understand why we should accept dystopia for an uncaring god.
A better question is how much any of these minds deserve and what they do to achieve it. Competitive reality is not a dream, it’s pretty harsh. There is not much to have and you can only have so much in total.
Not intentionally, but we've managed to create societies where reproduction is extremely costly in every conceivable way and are even working to convince people that reproduction is outright tyrannical, sexist, and environmentally genocidal.
The instinct will certainly remain, but population decline seems inevitable the way things are going. Even a few decades from now, the human breadbaskets of the developing world adopt the anti-natalist systems we have in the developed world.