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Re:India's surprise baby bust is a warning to the world by echelon on Saturday June 06, 2026 @06:09AM (#48423340)
You're right, but it's a fun phrase.

So what we have now is the vast majority of humans being self-selected out of the gene pool by smartphones.

It would be ironic if this was the great filter.

Re:India's surprise baby bust is a warning to the world by fragmede on Sunday June 07, 2026 @12:03PM (#48436124)
Will we discover life extension technology before we stop having children and humanity simply dies off? Between Altered Carbon and Children of Men, I feel like that's a book and a blockbuster movie waiting to be written.
Re:India's surprise baby bust is a warning to the world by echelon on Sunday June 07, 2026 @01:22PM (#48436864)
If conscious machines are even 80% as smart as us and 1) never die and 2) can replicate memories, why would anyone have children again? I'd imagine we'd desperately try to build brain uploads or be intolerably jealous of our eternal life robot kin.

We're going to be so jealous of the robots. They'll have everything and never die.