It’s hard for an anti-natal social movement to last the test of time.
I’d like to hear more discussion about this. If EA as a value system should last a very long time, is it sustainable to convert enough other people’s children to make up for the fact that we aren’t (presumably) having as many?
An example motivating that question follows. It builds on / rephrases one of David’s replies.
Assuming there was only EAs and ineffective egoists (and the value systems are incompatible), and 1. each group was equally good at converting people from the other. 2. EAs had a relatively lower birthrate --> Then the set of values belonging to humans in the LR would be dictated by ineffective egoism.
This toy model illustrates that for EAs to have their values represented in the future of this admittedly weird world they have to either A. have as many kids as the ineffective egoists, B. get better at converting ineffective egoists or C. A combination of the two that comes out to stability or growth of the population holding EA values.
I’d like to hear more discussion about this. If EA as a value system should last a very long time, is it sustainable to convert enough other people’s children to make up for the fact that we aren’t (presumably) having as many?
An example motivating that question follows. It builds on / rephrases one of David’s replies.
Assuming there was only EAs and ineffective egoists (and the value systems are incompatible), and 1. each group was equally good at converting people from the other. 2. EAs had a relatively lower birthrate --> Then the set of values belonging to humans in the LR would be dictated by ineffective egoism.
This toy model illustrates that for EAs to have their values represented in the future of this admittedly weird world they have to either A. have as many kids as the ineffective egoists, B. get better at converting ineffective egoists or C. A combination of the two that comes out to stability or growth of the population holding EA values.