[ritzaco]

> “Only two things are important right now in life: fertility and deep learning,” the University of Pennsylvania economist Jesús Fernández-Villaverde said at the conclusion of a recent lecture. “Everything else is noise. Once you start thinking about these, it’s hard to start thinking about anything else.”

Not sure if I agree but that's quite a memorable quote

[newsy-combi]

It's also a useless quote. Fertility requires a whole supply chain pyramid: food, housing, infrastructure, medical industry, alcohol... the same goes for the needs of deep learning: energy, rare earths, nuclear science,... together they cover almost all of the economy anyway, with the exception of luxury goods, but then again you need those to make yourself attractive. So yes, we need hoverboards to procreate and coffee and cape-shit to keep scientists entertained.

[refactor_master]

Maybe humanity will have more babies when AI takes over, capitalism implodes and we’re all farming and crafting things from scratch, since we’re forced out of the “economy”.

The house always… wins?

[Filligree]

Sure, Darwin always has the last laugh.

[xnx]

"Mother Nature always bats last, and she always bats 1.000"

[slekker]

Kind of reminded me of the prelude to Handmaid's Tale

[skrebbel]

Madness. “The only things that matter are my hobby and my favourite right-wing trope”