Shifting births toward higher‑IQ parents raises innovation and incomes, moving an 'innovation index' from Poland/Greece/Ireland levels toward Switzerland/USA/Sweden. Yet total population still plunges (control loses ~70% in 100 years), so selection boosts productivity but worsens headcount decline without broader fertility recovery.
— It clarifies that eugenic pronatalism cannot substitute for restoring general fertility and forces explicit tradeoffs among growth, aging, and workforce size.
Uncorrelated
2025.07.17
100% relevant
All scenarios in the simulation show catastrophic population decline despite higher per‑capita GDP and innovation metrics.
Lan Dao
2025.05.23
45% relevant
Both argue that technological or selective interventions can change outcomes at the margin (productivity; neonatal survival) without reversing overall headcount decline—here, ectogenesis won’t raise TFR just as eugenic pronatal incentives don’t stop population shrinkage.
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