Is this feeble attempt to gesture at Thermodynamics predictive success as doomed to frustration as the prediction that the moon should be falling into the Earth but actually it's moving away from the Earth? How does Thermodynamics predict that mere movements on a gravitaional objects can contradict the often-taught principle that a body rotating another will eventually fall into it?

Correct, the headline should be: Why is Fertility So Low in EXPENSIVE Countries?

The reality is that 'high income' more likely than not means high prices, constant pressure to keep earning money, because there are very few things in 'high income' (expensive) countries that doesn't cost money. We are constantly forced to pay taxes, never mind that in expensive countries large parts of the population live in dense urban areas, in cities and nobody has land that they can live off of. If you have no source of food other than the store and you cannot avoid paying taxes and paying high costs of owning or renting a property, then you are constantly under pressure to earn money.

In an expensive country you have expensive government and this government never ceases to pressure you to pay more taxes, makes things truly unaffordable by pretending to give it to you for free, basically in expensive countries you are forced to provide not only for yourself and for your children and maybe for your elderly parents, you are forced to provide for your expensive government.

An expensive government is obviously the cost of running the government itself, salaries, pensions, buildings, all expenses but it is also all of the laws, that are constantly adding more and more expenses to the system, thus mostly forcing the government to get deeper into debt and to steal your purchasing power through inflation (money printing).

Under these circumstances people who have access to contraceptives will use them almost always and this prevents almost all unwanted pregnancies. The other part of the population is just too stressed out and too tired from constant earning to pay for all of this 'high income' expensive stuff.

At the end children become a luxury for those, who can afford just a little more than the other guy or they become a way to suck money out of the system itself by getting onto various programs. They are an irrational choice for many, so to have them you either have to have a direct financial incentive or to be irrational or to be wealthy enough to afford them.

just play human music at 5% processing and keep the settings on auto, we'll deal with this later.

Being nonviolent, why can't I choose the first option? And why shouldn't I be able to announce my suicidal intentions openly, with arguments as to why suicide is a good idea, one that you should consider (and everyone else!) too?

Are they really looking for intelligence in these LLMs or are they missing something else that slows down their progress? Is it intelligence, that we are trying to get out of LLMs? If so, I think they can be easily at least as 'intelligent' as anyone, they certainly have more information than any one person does. Maybe what they are looking for and not finding just cannot be found that way, that's because it is not intelligence they are looking for but some form of organic animal like behavior? In that case they will be looking for a while, not until we have robots everywhere that are more than a camera on a car, something that can touch, taste, smell, feel pain, hunger, consume to sustain itself, will the new level of 'intelligence' appear.

Why is the stock market at record highs?

Remember when Reagan said Carter's couple trillion dollars of national debt was the endgame, but here we are with US stocks still the world's premier performance asset?

Is it time to ask whether Reagan did, in fact, prove that deficits don't matter?

Maybe the real question is why bother having children, to bring them into the world where they are really unwanted by the entire society?

Does it matter if the dollar depreciates 10% if your dollar assets appreciate 20%?

Why should I be happy that pure chance separates me from being hunted by drones, especially when I just get banned if I try to express sympathy for those unluckily suffering worse conditions than me? Why should I take part in this ridiculous nightmare of an unfair system?

Why won't you support laws that would let me buy a suicide solution, even if someone profits? Why force me to be underhanded and sneaky? Why are you afraid of me openly and proudly choosing death, and advocating that you should, too?

What if you buy US stocks with your dollars, and they go up more than the dollar declines?

Remember when your attitude was prevalent in the 1980s but the US stock market is still insanely profitable?

How come the stock market outperforms inflation and keeps setting new record highs? How are you going to buy the S&P 500 if you don't hold dollars?

But in a world where profit from death is so ubiquitous (animal deaths, weapons manufacturers, Blackwater, etc.), how arbitrary is drawing the line at suicide clinics?

From one of my brother's last notes (possibly the last):

"If they can put a man on the moon
You'd think
They could give us totally painless suicide,
available on demand, in clinics, for a fee.
Hell of a profitable business!!! of course,
the criminals would cut corners and the
sadists make you suffer until, like everything
else, you'd be as afraid to go to the
Clinic as you are to pull the trigger."

What is wrong with allowing me to buy a dose of horse tranquilizer (that is what my brother used, but he had to get his illicitly), hiking up to some remote hilltop, and lying myself down for the last time? Why force me to hide my intentions and use illegal websites to obtain my exit method?

Is it because the argument for suicide is so strong that you can't defeat it with words, so you can only ban it?