Re: true abundance?

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Mon Jan 29 2001 - 10:05:03 MST


Michael Lorrey wrote:
>
> What I'd do is grant birth licenses based on the average education of
> the couple. If the average is high school graduation, they get one kid.
> For every two additional years, they get another kid. Since the data
> shows that child bearing goes down with increasing education levels,
> this should cause average family size to drop to between 2-3 kids per
> couple rather quickly.

Just what we need, yet another socially recognized test propping up a
failed school system.

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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence



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