A 17th #BirthdayParty, a #Stocked #Bar, #BeerPong, and a “#ParentalRights” #Mom Facing #Assault #Charges.

Here’s the latest #scandal involving a #conservative #culturewarrior.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/12/clarice-schillinger-parental-rights-activist-faces-criminal-charges-bucks-county/

It should be clear from this why the "Future of Humanity Institute" sends a shiver up my spine. This institute isn't just focused on what the future might be like. It's advocating for a very particular worldview — the longtermist worldview — that it hopes to actualize by influencing world governments and tech billionaires. And to this point, its efforts are paying off.

#Robin #Hanson is, alongside William MacAskill, a "research associate" at the Future of Humanity Institute. He is also a "#men's #rights" advocate who has been involved in transhumanism since the 1990s.

In his contribution to the 2008 book "Global Catastrophic Risks," which was co-edited by Bostrom, he argued that in order to rebuild industrial civilization if it were to collapse, we might need to "retrace the growth path of our human ancestors," passing from a hunter-gatherer to an agricultural phase, leading up to our current industrial state.

How could we do this? One way, he suggested, would be to create refuges — e.g., #underground #bunkers — that are continually #stocked with #humans. But not just any humans will do: if we end up in a pre-industrial phase again,

Robin Hanson's big plan is to take people from contemporary hunter-gatherer cultures and stuff them into underground bunkers with instructions to rebuild industrial civilization if ours collapses