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Why do so many people think there's a birth dearth? I'm not talking about these YouTubers; I'm talking about the natalists who prompted the videos in the first place. The pro-natalists seem to think the earth once had a zillion people which has now been reduced to 8 billion. So very wrong. The number right now is the highest in history. Never before in the 4½ billion years of Earth's existence have there been as many people on the globe as there are right now, this very second. The population is always growing; it never decreases significantly for any length of time, even when there's a major pandemic.

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Why is artificial intelligence being used to write books instead of for promoting books?

This is so bizarre to me. True writers love writing, so why would we want to surrender the best part of the process to machines and software?

Meanwhile, the worst part of writing is the marketing and discoverability, so why aren't programmers designing AI specifically and solely for promotion? The software should be making every book go viral, or at least putting every book in front of its intended audience. Instead, it's stealing all the humanity and originality from our work and replacing it with formulaic, plagiarized sameness. ʕʘ_ʘʔ

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5/5/23 04:24 pm
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This doesn't bode well for the future...

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Sure wish shrink and prosper would become a thang, especially sustainable reproduction, since human activity on the earth seems to be the driving force behind all the environmental, social and economic hardship. (╯︵╰,)

But, yanno, whatevs.