At the outset, I’ll say that the answer to ‘should you have kids?’ in general, is probably not. I’ll also say that I’ve seen/had this discussion dozens of times now and the result is always the same: you’re gonna do what you want to do and rationalize it however you need to. The genes win this fight 9 times out of 10.
If you’re rich (if you reasonably expect to own multiple properties and afford all of lifes luxuries for the rest of your life), it’s probably okay—you won’t face financial ruin and your children will be insulated from the worst of what’s to come, probably.
(It’s still insanely bad for the environment though.)
AI is just one of a long long long long list of horrible things we have to look forward to in the coming decades. Not even mentioning all the horrible things that are already here—being a kid is no picnic nowadays.
One of the podcasts I listen to, The Great Simplification by Nate Hagens, has interviewed dozens of people whos focus is on understanding the world and anticipating the future, and toward the end of each episode he asks each of them the same few questions—one of which is something like ‘what would you say to children today? What advice would you give?’ - and almost without exception the people he’s interviewing express remorse about the legacy they’ve left for their children and grandchildren: we’re sorry, we tried, we failed, we’re so so sorry.
If you have kids, which I expect you will, the one piece of advice I’d give you is to whole-ass it, maximum effort. Keep them away from the internet, teach them yourself, give them every opportunity to discover and create the relationships and passions that they will need to flourish, nurture them at every opportunity.
karma strong upvote, agreement downvote. score of approximately 1 seems reasonable for this comment to me, though I expect you’ll be karma downvoted again if you don’t rephrase to be a bit kinder in verbal impact. I don’t actually think you’re wrong about the trajectory of things if we don’t pull up. I think we can get out of the hole, but dang, we sure seem to be in one. Startrek is not out of the question, but my take is things might get pretty bad before they get amazing.
At the outset, I’ll say that the answer to ‘should you have kids?’ in general, is probably not. I’ll also say that I’ve seen/had this discussion dozens of times now and the result is always the same: you’re gonna do what you want to do and rationalize it however you need to. The genes win this fight 9 times out of 10.
If you’re rich (if you reasonably expect to own multiple properties and afford all of lifes luxuries for the rest of your life), it’s probably okay—you won’t face financial ruin and your children will be insulated from the worst of what’s to come, probably.
(It’s still insanely bad for the environment though.)
AI is just one of a long long long long list of horrible things we have to look forward to in the coming decades. Not even mentioning all the horrible things that are already here—being a kid is no picnic nowadays.
One of the podcasts I listen to, The Great Simplification by Nate Hagens, has interviewed dozens of people whos focus is on understanding the world and anticipating the future, and toward the end of each episode he asks each of them the same few questions—one of which is something like ‘what would you say to children today? What advice would you give?’ - and almost without exception the people he’s interviewing express remorse about the legacy they’ve left for their children and grandchildren: we’re sorry, we tried, we failed, we’re so so sorry.
If you have kids, which I expect you will, the one piece of advice I’d give you is to whole-ass it, maximum effort. Keep them away from the internet, teach them yourself, give them every opportunity to discover and create the relationships and passions that they will need to flourish, nurture them at every opportunity.
karma strong upvote, agreement downvote. score of approximately 1 seems reasonable for this comment to me, though I expect you’ll be karma downvoted again if you don’t rephrase to be a bit kinder in verbal impact. I don’t actually think you’re wrong about the trajectory of things if we don’t pull up. I think we can get out of the hole, but dang, we sure seem to be in one. Startrek is not out of the question, but my take is things might get pretty bad before they get amazing.