Fertility rate expert and demographer Lyman Stone talks with Cairo and Kenny about memetic plagues and not pulling out of the human pyramid scheme too fast.
Re the Great Filter, I think there is a sense in which individuals hit a sort of "enthusiasm wall" where they either don't want to innovate or pursue joy in their own lives--they become more repetitive and more cautious. The palliative over the celebratory.
"The Heart Asks Pleasure First, and then excuse from pain--"
People at different ages are subject to different mental pathologies...I'd expect graying populations to be less violent but a lot more dreary.
(And I think both right and left-coded safetyism play into this, but that's maybe something for a longer comment.)
(PS I think someone, I don't remember who, articulated the "palliative vs celebratory" thing on X and I thought this was a useful way of looking at a lot of cultural problems, but I don't recommend googling it, you just get a bunch of results for euthanasia and funerals.=p)
Re the Great Filter, I think there is a sense in which individuals hit a sort of "enthusiasm wall" where they either don't want to innovate or pursue joy in their own lives--they become more repetitive and more cautious. The palliative over the celebratory.
"The Heart Asks Pleasure First, and then excuse from pain--"
People at different ages are subject to different mental pathologies...I'd expect graying populations to be less violent but a lot more dreary.
(And I think both right and left-coded safetyism play into this, but that's maybe something for a longer comment.)
(PS I think someone, I don't remember who, articulated the "palliative vs celebratory" thing on X and I thought this was a useful way of looking at a lot of cultural problems, but I don't recommend googling it, you just get a bunch of results for euthanasia and funerals.=p)