Hacker NewsSilicon Valley's "Pronatalists" Killed WFH. The Strait of Hormuz Brought It Back
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Chuck DarwinAs the first guests began to trickle in, the conversation turned,
as these things do,
to the ethics of gene-editing embryos to create custom babies.
“I would actually argue that the ethical questions probably aren’t as big,
because kids already don’t choose their genes,” said
#Malcolm #Collins,
a slight, bespectacled influencer who had helped organize the gathering.
“I think that we’re really close to a subculture where this is normalized
—a right-wing subculture.”
His wife, #Simone, busily filling bowls with chips, nodded in agreement.
She was dressed for the evening in a white wide-brimmed bonnet, a peasant blouse, and an austere, calf-length black jumper;
her daughter,
1-year-old
#Industry #Americus,
lounged in a carrier on her back.
She and her husband, she said, were comfortable with the idea of #designer #babies;
-- after all, Industry and her three older siblings,
all under the age of 7,
had been created with the help of a company 👉that said it could
analyze their embryos’ genetic makeup to screen for genetic illnesses,
depression, and schizophrenia,
as well as predict their intelligence.
Yet Simone wasn’t convinced that the world needed bespoke babies
—the process would be too expensive,
and with all the hormone shots,
monitoring, and precise timing,
too cumbersome to get the job done at scale.
“IVF isn’t going to move the needle on birth rates,” she said.
The Collinses and some 200 others were in Austin that weekend for #NatalCon,
a conference held at the University of Texas at Austin for #pronatalists,
people who believe that falling birthrates the world over imperil humanity
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/this-is-a-war-and-natalism-is-our-sword-and-shield-my-weekend-with-the-pronatalists/
News BeepWhy Donald Trump, Elon Musk and JD Vance want to ‘make America procreate again’ through pronatalism
Simone Collins is making pizza, sourdough and banana bread while juggling a toddler on her back when a…
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In promoting the idea that our culture faces existential crisis unless we reproduce, the aims of #pronatalists
overlap with those of #racist #conspiracists
who believe in the “great replacement theory”
– the conviction that people of white European heritage are being demographically taken over by non-whites who have children at a faster rate.
Malcolm Collins
insists pronatalism is about pluralism. “Humanity improves through cultural evolution. For that you need cultural #diversity.”
But in this numbers game, the Collinses need only a few people to join them to save humanity; those who remain unconvinced will simply die out.
⭐️“I don’t care if environmentalists don’t want to have kids. The point of the movement is to help those that do.”⭐️
Lorrainehttps://archive.ph/2022.11.17-212540/https://www.businessinsider.com/pronatalism-elon-musk-simone-malcolm-collins-underpopulation-breeding-tech-2022-11
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Business Insider 11/26/2022
“Billionaires like Elon Musk want to save civilization by having tons of genetically superior kids. Inside the movement to take 'control of human evolution.'”
“Malcolm & Simone Collins are self-proclaimed #pronatalists Simone told Insider they viewed
"the pathway to immortality as being through having children.”🙄
#eugenics #TaxTheBillionaires #ElonMusk #PeterThiel #JeffreyEpstein
posting w/no comments...altho I’ve MANY.. #bananas #mustRead
Business Insider 11/26/2022
“Billionaires like Elon Musk want to save civilization by having tons of genetically superior kids. Inside the movement to take 'control of human evolution.'”
“Malcolm & Simone Collins are self-proclaimed #pronatalists Simone told Insider they viewed
"the pathway to immortality as being through having children.”🙄
#eugenics #TaxTheBillionaires #ElonMusk #PeterThiel #JeffreyEpstein
iris ✿ sandwalkerthis is probably the weirdest thing I have read in a long time - "#pronatalists" want to save civilization by having tons of genetically superior kids https://www.businessinsider.com/pronatalism-elon-musk-simone-malcolm-collins-underpopulation-breeding-tech-2022-11
Sonja Peteranderl„#Pronatalists: #Billionaires like #ElonMusk want to save civilization by having tons of genetically superior kids. Inside the movement to take 'control of human evolution‘