We have a surplus of people engaging in creating new humans. World population rises and there nothing wrong with having half as many people. In fact it might even help with a lot of issues such as global warming.
There also a second issue. You speak like dying of old age is inevitable. I much rather focus on solving that issue than focusing on producing more kids.
I much rather focus on solving that issue than focusing on producing more kids.
People continue to speak as if having kids funges mostly against high-minded projects. For most people, even most LWers, I think it will funge mostly against leisure.
For most people, even most LWers, I think it will funge mostly against leisure.
That assumes that my leisure time doesn’t interact with high-minded projects. Posting on Lesswrong is a leisure activity for myself. While engaging in it I do learn things that are relevant to high-minded project and have a chance to contribute ideas to high-minded projects.
Giving quantified self media interviews is also an activity that you could call leisure by the definition that Wikipedia uses: “Leisure, or free time, is time spent away from business, work, and domestic chores.”
I’m in a position where I gave a bunch of those interviews and I did turn down my last interview request for a radio interview.
There are a lot of tasks that do contribute to high-minded projects that you can’t do in a way where it’s business/work and you get payed for it.
Yes. You’d also learn relevant things from raising children and many aspects of the experience are even pleasant.
I don’t think that there are no advantages to having kids and I don’t judge people for thinking that getting children is a good use of there time.
As far as learning relevant things goes, a lot of the lessons of child rearing are learned by many people. Most of the time it’s much easier to learn relevant things when you focus your attention on an area that isn’t well explored by other people.
I do grant that having children means that you have experimental test subjects whose environment you can control very well. But that’s not what most people mean when they advocate “raising children” and there are moral concerns.
We have a surplus of people engaging in creating new humans. World population rises and there nothing wrong with having half as many people. In fact it might even help with a lot of issues such as global warming.
There also a second issue. You speak like dying of old age is inevitable. I much rather focus on solving that issue than focusing on producing more kids.
People continue to speak as if having kids funges mostly against high-minded projects. For most people, even most LWers, I think it will funge mostly against leisure.
That assumes that my leisure time doesn’t interact with high-minded projects. Posting on Lesswrong is a leisure activity for myself. While engaging in it I do learn things that are relevant to high-minded project and have a chance to contribute ideas to high-minded projects.
Giving quantified self media interviews is also an activity that you could call leisure by the definition that Wikipedia uses: “Leisure, or free time, is time spent away from business, work, and domestic chores.”
I’m in a position where I gave a bunch of those interviews and I did turn down my last interview request for a radio interview.
There are a lot of tasks that do contribute to high-minded projects that you can’t do in a way where it’s business/work and you get payed for it.
Yes. You’d also learn relevant things from raising children and many aspects of the experience are even pleasant.
Exactly.
I don’t think that there are no advantages to having kids and I don’t judge people for thinking that getting children is a good use of there time.
As far as learning relevant things goes, a lot of the lessons of child rearing are learned by many people. Most of the time it’s much easier to learn relevant things when you focus your attention on an area that isn’t well explored by other people.
I do grant that having children means that you have experimental test subjects whose environment you can control very well. But that’s not what most people mean when they advocate “raising children” and there are moral concerns.