Fertility and Culture: A Deep Dive (Please Share!) Those of us who have been thinking hard about demography understand that civilizational progress has been intertwined with growing population. We know that technological progress and even social justice depend on prosperity. We see Japan’s 30-year stagnation, Europe’s 1... See more

in the time it took to raise a child to become an effective altruist, you could persuade some unknowably large number of people who were not your children to become effective altruists. “It feels selfish to have a kid. The EA argument for having a kid is that kid equals happiness and happiness equals increased productivity. If they can get there in

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