Joseph Henrich
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first heard Mar 2025
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And I think that there will be spread of ideologies or religions or something which are pronatalist.
And those groups will have a big advantage in cultural evolution because a community that is pronatalist tends to produce more pronatalist babies.
And so, I mean, that's the Christianity spread using that.
Mormonism spread in the 19th century using that trick.
So I just feel like we're – cultural evolution is going to find the combination and there's going to be some pronatalist groups spreading.
Well, I mean, from a cultural evolutionary perspective, this is relatively new, right?
So the demographic transition is only really like late 19th century.
Lots of the world is just getting hit after 1970.
And we also have things like rising female labor force participation, which is going to stifle it, rising female education.
And so once that stuff, you know,
maxes out, then we'll, you know, you'll see variation among different groups in terms of the number of babies they produce, right?
So, and this thing unfolds in demographic timescale, so we're not going to see it for a few generations, but there'll be some group somewhere that will be producing more babies than everybody else.
Yeah.
The reason why I think religion is the likely one is because, you know, people might people do things because they think God wants to do it.
And if people come to think that God wants them to have more babies because it's a way of worshiping him or getting to heaven or whatever the religious configuration is, then that'll be a group that produces more babies.
I mean, Catholics were defying the demographic transition for a while.
They just seem to have stopped.
Right.
Yeah.
So I think the answer to that is yes.
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