Thanks for being a driver in making this topic more accessible through film :) It's lovely! Also appreciate the choice of making the models children!

I really like this tool and I've shared it with quite a few friends that agree. 

Yep, makes sense. I don't have much understanding on either the likelihood of recession in this scenario or consequences of it; but it seems good that not everyone relies on AGI automation for this to be solved :)

Hi medinot - thanks a lot for writing this up and contributing to the forum!

I never heard of artificial wombs before other than the “The Pod Generation” movie and I think the idea is cool.

What I would love to see when you are making such a big decision as whether you should dedicate your career to it is a Theory of Change (have you heard about this?) to make your assumptions about why this would be impactful more explicit. 

Spontaneous questions that arise for me are: what are the concrete harms with population collapse? How will research be conducted to find the effects of artificial wombs on the children born from them? How will the economics of this technology look like (and could it give rise to inequality)? Are there more benefits to artificial wombs that we don’t think of?

Would love to hear your thoughts.

Not comfortable answering your second question :)

Oh! Fantastic, thanks for letting me know Toby - should've looked in the "COMMENTS" section of the search results as well! 

Thanks for sharing these perspectives Rory! On an emotional level, combining what you are saying with the thought of there being others that are also trying their best to e.g. save starfish, makes me think "Maybe, just maybe, we can solve the whole problem" - and that gives me both inspiration and hope :)

Thanks a lot for your input here Sarah! These are all good points, some of which were not obvious to me as a user, for sure. 

I'd be curious what would happen if you would run some tiny experiment on breaking the unified space, and I don't think structural siloing necessarily would correlate with epistemic siloing (even though I get that many posts do not fit single categories and that it would be a difficult meta-question around what categories would be appropriate). 

To me, a unified space can create the feeling of having a discussion with lots of people, which I find more difficult than if there is a smaller discussion group. 

If you view the forum from a UX lens and put it in the context of different categories of online community infrastructures (e.g. Facebook/Twitter feed of short posts, Discord/Slack channel-based, Quora/StackExchange/Reddit upvote/question-based and more traditional forums with defined categories/aubcategories and threads), what do you think are the pros and cons of how the Forum is currently structured and how does that facilitate (or not facilitate) what you would like to see happen in online EA community building? Would also be curious to hear how you would compare the Forum to that of the many existing EA Slack channels.

Thanks a lot for finding and linking! :)

I would be super-keen on reading more essays exploring friendship from a well-being/making-the-world-a-better-place point-of-view, and I do think there is something to say there with regards to community building, too! 

In any case, I found this post to be a thoughtful reminder for my personal goals with regards to relationships. And thanks for making me laugh! Not something I expect from an ordinary Tuesday evening *hat off*.