I've wondered in the past if perhaps the best thing LW members could do if the singularity is more than 80 (4 generations) years away was simply to breed like Amish and adopt values of having many kids in the very late teens and early twenties early, focusing on higher education in the middling twenties and then after fifty spending most time on grandchildren whose parents followed the same patter and focus their late 20s and 30s on other goals.

Historical (Amish) population:

• 1920 5,000
• 1944 13,000
• 1976 57,000
• 1992 125,000
• 2010 249,000

People underestimate just how much "dumb" replication can do to carry memes forward.

Edit: LW's help for a list of items is a bit confusing. If I remove item * in front of "historical Amish populations" from the above, the readable list of dates and population numbers collapses into a single poorly readable line. Can anyone explain this a bit further for me?