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Re: Perinatal Lottery Sterilization I have since changed the name to "Perinatal" since I am considering the aspect of performing the sterilization in utero.

I have simplified some of my ideas into a more concise and practical approach. http://www.thermo4thermo.org/pls_biotech.pdf http://www.thermo4thermo.org/ I am really looking for people who see what I see. Please forward to some who you think might be open-minded about reading just 10 pages...

I am still giving this much thought. I think it is important to "give ILS a chance". I realize that it is counter-intuitive because being forcibly sterilized seems to be making some people, at random, unequal. I would suggest that keeping it "at the ready" and to some degree in practice for the...

A useful goal might be to keep the sterilization program free of eugenics. Sterilizing parents who have had some number children might also help, but then you might as well just explicit adopt some version of China's one-child (or two- or three- ...) policy.

You could give the sterilized elevated social status and subsidize their education. You know: try to encourage them to leave an intellectual legacy since leaving a genetic legacy is no longer an option.

If past experience is of any use: relying on volunteers for the short stick is rarely sufficient.

A lottery is somewhat objectifying, but it has a grand tradition, such as in difficult military decisions where getting the short stick matters. Again, I think it is important to get the technical and legal obstacles knocked/eroded down so that when serious ILS programs get implemented, society...

I would say that slopping up to 9 billion by 2050 is hardly a plan. What I see is the industrialized countries (at least, the least religious ones), working on decent sterilizing pharmaceuticals for a decade or two and giving ISL a try at a very low rate for a decade (perhaps only doubling...

For the bulk of humanity, leaving planet Earth at all is simply not an option. Infant Sterilization does not, at first, seem to make sense but the problem with One-Child policy is that it is rather rigid. What if, for example, you really needed a 0.9 or a 1.1 child policy for a few decades...

One of the first steps is to get the high-tech pharma industry to recognize that research in human sterilization (probably injectable) is a legitimate long-term R&D investment. Another important issue is to get society to recognize the "Fourth Trimester Person" where is might be legal to...

Part of my inspiration was watching George Schultz talk about a "nuclear-free world" at Stanford a few years ago. I did not ask a question during the Q&A session, but it occurred to me that a nuclear-free world would have to look a bit like fascism to avoid nuclear terrorism. It seems that an...

Eugenics is a distinct goal that has already with approached with unsatisfactory results. In my opinion, there is no urgent need for eugenics but the planet has a real need for a mature form of population control within the next century.

No, it would have to be done on a national basis at first. The planet neither has the self-control to do it nor do we have any sort of effective (and admittedly dangerous) world government.

One idea I have been playing with is to increase the "win rate" for second and later children. It point is to create a system that would effectively reduce how many grandchildren one has because it is intended to be a long-term effective measure. ILS is probably not the entire answer because...

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