Will Babies Exist?

2 points by stokasticParrot ↗ HN
Imagine AGI is here, now, would you still consider having human babies? why?

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It's an interesting question. I've been pondering about what will happen to the human population with AI. Will we have more or less babies?

Arguments that more babies will come:

* AI will help us become exponentially more efficient so one person can produce more, leading to more resources for more babies

Arguments that fewer babies will come:

* AI replaces everyone except the elites or those that control the AI

* AI will help us invent medicine that makes the existing population live longer or forever

Of all the factors that might go into such a decision, AGI is at the bottom of my list.
We obviously need to cultivate human beings in artificial wombs, Matrix style.

Reversing population decline is one of the hard challenges which few countries have ever even had the slightest hint of success doing - we are talking isolated episodic examples like Australia's McCrindle baby bonus and maybe Ceaucescu Romania - so we had better come to terms with growing human beings as a supplement to, if not replacement for, natural birth

GI is here, now. It doesn't seem to have much effect on the decision process. Why do you think AGI would have any effect?

At least directly. Theoretically, I guess, if AGI somehow precipitated a significant increase in global education levels and, especially, female education levels, then it would have an indirect effect on birth rates. But I'm not sure what that link from AGI to education would entail.

AGI would be able to do exponentially better than any baby human, and the solution out of that is in brain-machine interfaces, meta morphing Humans & AI , so any baby born today, will probably need a chip, just to be close to AGI capabilities, now the question returns, why would we need babies at that time if we're just trying to get them closer to AGI?
How are the two related?
ok let's dream a little bit

AGI comes, understands/processes/takes action on everything, including "Emotions" more efficiently than humans.

Gradually, Personal assistants ~morph~~ with us as they gain more capabilities

Babies become more like cats

just a dream~