[hmmmcurious1]

I wonder how my children will live in this much better world where the climate is collapsing, a global war is looming, the spectre of unemployment due to automation is everywhere, surveillance will soon be unescapable with every person having a personal llm agent checking them, inequality soaring and so on. Eh who cares, my genes tell me they must move forward so uhh sucks for my kids I guess

[bryanlarsen]

Your ancestors lived during the great depression, both world wars, the middle ages, et cetera. Surely many of them must have been pessimistic about the future, yet they all had kids...