Pronatalism and Silicon Valley’s Right-Wing Turn
Julia Black
Notes
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.
Guest
Julia Black is a senior correspondent at Insider and previously worked at Esquire and Vox. Follow Julia on Twitter at @mjnblack.
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Links
- 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.