Birthrates are plummeting worldwide. Can governments turn the tide? Nations are deploying baby bonuses, subsidised childcare and parental leave – largely to no avail.
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    To be frank, I don't know. I just think we are in a situation where we can rule out some of the possibilities by making comparisons between earlier societies and today, as well as different countries. For example, if we assume that bad living conditions are the root cause, then we have the problem that in earlier societies with much less wealth, that has been more demanding for the average person, people tended to have more children. In addition, we see that people in quite poor countries have a lot of children. You could save the assumption by adding a hypothesis like "if people know that life could be better but cannot achieve that better life, they are less likely to have children". While this might work, we must note that inequality was even worse in earlier societies. The difference between a peasant and a member of the nobility may have been much greater than the inequality we see today (within most socienties). Maybe the peasant wasn't aware of it, or whatever.

    Anyway, you need a more complex theory in this case.

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    I quoted the article in order to comment:

    One company is aiming to treat infections with a different strategy: arming tiny viruses called bacteriophages with Crispr.

    I checked it just out: CRISPR is already part of the intra-celluar immun system of baacterias and archaea.

    Whereas antibiotics kill bacteria indiscriminately—including the beneficial kind—phages have evolved to be selective in the strains or species of bacteria they target.

    So, the phages would not attacke the "good" bacteria within the stomach but the evil ones. Could be a great idea.

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    The funny part is that regular taxi drivers have said the same thing about Uber drivers. I do not judge the situation. I just can't avoid to find the situation a bit ironic.

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    I believe it’s a much more complex topic than that.

    I think, most likely, you overestimated the consideration of the majority. I may be wrong, though. Most opinion I read or heard about are more emotional drived.

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    Signal is offering the most accessible e2ee messenger right now.

    Doesn't matter. In the reach of EU, some law about Chat Control. If they make this into law, no provider within the EU will have a choice in this matter.

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    And the majority thinks this way for what reason?

    Because "Fake News" and missinformation has been framded as a danger for our societies for a long time.

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    Respectfully, you are delusional.

    Sorry, but your are just, bold wrong. The so called "capitalist world" has by far the greates wealth and possibilities than any other area of the world. And perhaps that partly caused the drop of birthrates world wide.

    The idea that bad conditions let birth rates drop is straight up false. The idea will be disproved by the fact that some of the most poor regions of the world have still high birth rates.

    Maybe, the problem is far more sophisticated and all, but many things around there are wishful thinking.

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    They famously jailed several Microsoft execs when they didn’t hand over some emails a few years ago.

    And somehow, thats a good thing? To break the security of communication on demand of the gouverment?

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    capitalist hellscape

    Doesn't exist. In fact, the people in the capitalist countries life far better lifes than those poor individuals in communistic ones. And additional, countries with large social-security-system like Germany or France has the same problem, even greater ones.

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    Does anyone has an idea what happend to the "Anonymous Remailer". Some years ago, there was an active scene of remailers in order to post anonym into the UseNet or send mails without a sender. As far as I know, there have even been technical solutions to problems like finding out whether someone is writing something based on traffic. I remember that there were even concepts for a kind of mailing list that worked in principle while respecting privacy. Has this been developed further?

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    From the Article: *"The physician-patient conversation is a cornerstone of medicine, in which skilled and intentional communication drives diagnosis, management, empathy and trust. AI systems capable of such diagnostic dialogues could increase availability, accessibility, quality and consistency of care by being useful conversational partners to clinicians and patients alike"* What do you say? Do you think its even possble? Could it rise privacy problems?

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    What do you think about the new EU AI Act?

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    I make a citation of the article. QUOTE: *"But a new study1 that tracks proteins suggests that these changes aren’t uniform: an individual’s organs can age at different rates, and a given organ can age at a faster rate in one person than in another with the same chronological age."* ENDQUOTE What do you think about this? Do you believe the may solved this problem with the pattern recognition of AI?

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