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Declining Fertility Rates

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This post made the rounds at USV this week and got us thinking about declining fertility rates around the world. While I am sharing that link with all of you, I don't agree with the author's conclusion about the inevitability of extinction. I think humanity is an extremely complex system with many self-correcting mechanisms in it. But the charts in the header of this blog post are worth paying attention to. I was emailing with a friend about this earlier this week, and he said that three charts he is staring at right now are 1/ global installation of solar, 2/ declining fertility rates, 3/ massive adoption of AI. My friend is a very astute observer of history, technology, and the interaction between the two. I pay attention to what he pays attention to. If the population of the world is going to be declining, not growing, and if we are adopting cheap, and getting cheaper, energy at a very rapid pace, and if we have technology to make everyone massively more productive, what kind of wor

Declining Fertility Rates This post made the rounds at USV this week and got us thinking about declining fertility rates around the world. While I am sharing that link with all of you, I don't agree with the author's conclusion about the inevitability of extinction. I think humanity is an extremely complex system with many self-correcting mechanisms in it. But the charts in the header of this blog post are worth paying attention to. I was emailing with a friend about this earlier this week, and he said that three charts he is staring at right now are 1/ global installation of solar, 2/ declini

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