Personality engineering a team of NPCs as an audience for reading and encouraging me to write my fiction, helping to build an IDE for writing, deploying website CI/CD pipelines writing Dockerfiles, APIs, etc.
Birth is not the limiter, childrearing is.
Synthetic wombs are more expensive than just having surrogate mothers. For the same reason that synthetic food is more expensive than bread and cabbage.
The actual counter to fertility decline, may be AI teachers. AI will radically close the education gap between rich and poor, and lower the costs. All you need is a physical human to supervise the kid, the AI will do the rest, from entertainment, to education, to identifying when the child is hungry/sleepy/potty, and relaying that info for the human to act on.
I am starting a bcorp to develop a visual metaprogramming interface for generating ecs code if any Unity engineers laid off are interested in being a potential cofounder you can message me on Discord Wesxdz#1518 :)
Sounds like a soft vulnerable world hypothesis. I think it's training, collaboration, motivation, and funding of engineers that really matters though. I think what's happening in Ukraine shows that as long as brain drain happens it doesn't matter if knowledge is open because it cannot be used effectively.
I spent 6 months helping to prototype and build the Seed Eco Home at Open Source Ecology ('a modular incremental 1000sqft home that two people can build in a week for $50,000') to help solve housing. https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Seed_Eco-Home
Unfortunately, the apprenticeship program was underfunded due to the lack of participation caused by COVID, and maybe more broadly, despite what people say, they are not actually interested in collaborating to reduce human suffering/advance humanity by solving problems like housing when there are personal sacrifices/opportunity costs involved. Look at something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depopulation_of_the_Great_Plai... and it's pretty clear that the problem with housing is mainly social inequality rather than any underlying technical bottleneck...
Really like the high quality design of the paper! €250 for a kit + shipping/assembly time does seem like a heavy price that would take a long time to pay for itself if not used in a centralized commercial facility. I like to imagine in the future we'll all have circular economy infrastructure built directly into open source hardware appliances in our living spaces, no need to 'take out the trash'
