The Right Wing Politics and What They're Doing

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I was really interested in this as well and kind of seeing it repeated through the pieces that you had done, right? Everything needs to be quantified. We need to be able to track how everything is doing. And I would say sometimes they use this quantification to act like what they're doing is moral. But we need to think on a much longer time scale. Even if people are suffering today, well, you know, what about all the people in the future and we could protect them?"

Paris Marx is joined by Julia Black to discuss tech billionaires’ embrace of pronatalism and how it’s part of a broader rationalist project to remake society and protect their privileged positions.

Julia Black is a senior correspondent at Insider and previously worked at Esquire and Vox. Follow Julia on Twitter at @mjnblack.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.

The podcast is produced by Eric Wickham and part of the Harbinger Media Network.

Also mentioned in this episode:

Julia wrote about pronatalism, Lex Fridman, and Sam Altman.
Paris wrote about eugenics in Silicon Valley.
Marc Andreessen wrote “It’s Time to Build” in April 2020.
Timnit Gebru gave a presentation on the TESCREAL bundle of ideologies. Émile Torres made a thread on Twitter about it.

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