| ▲ | oblio 3 hours ago | |
> Singapore is an IQ shredder. Heh, I've just realized about 2 years ago that it's worse. Cities are people shredders. Based on the information I've found, cities have lower fertility rates than rural areas and this has been the case ever since they were created. I absolutely love cities, but with ever increasing urbanization and unless we make HUGE changes to facilitate people easily having kids in cities (and I'm talking HUGE, stuff like having stay at home parents for the first 6-7 years of their childhood, free access to communal areas that offer all the services required to take care of kids of any age, free education, etc), humanity will probably not be able to sustain a population of more than say, 1 billion people. Probably much fewer. Which I guess, could work, but we will be in totally uncharted territory. And then AI comes in and things become... very interesting. | ||