Hacker News with Generative AI: Demography

'Now Is the Time of Monsters' (nytimes.com)
Donald Trump is returning, artificial intelligence is maturing, the planet is warming, and the global fertility rate is collapsing.
Politics, Artificial Intelligence, Climate Change, Demography
7 points by prawn 2 days ago | 2 comments
The Depopulation Bomb Isn't Ticking, It's Overblown (americandreaming.substack.com)
In the 1960s and 70s, as the global population was growing by leaps and bounds, prominent intellectuals, institutions, and political leaders, from the United Nations, to the Club of Rome, to President Richard Nixon, warned about the looming crisis of overpopulation. Today, with birth rates falling around the world, a growing number of thought leaders foretell the precise opposite.
Demography, Population Growth, Social Commentary, Predictions
22 points by paulpauper 105 days ago | 65 comments
Demographer's work debunking regions of exceptional lifespan wins Ig Nobel Prize (ucl.ac.uk)
A study by Dr Saul Justin Newman (Centre for Longitudinal Studies) has won the first-ever Ig Nobel award in Demography at this year’s 34th Ig Nobel Prizes. His work reveals fundamental flaws in the data about the world’s oldest people and patterns of extreme longevity.
Demography, Science, Awards, Research, Longevity
45 points by _qua 120 days ago | 7 comments