They don't want to make a population level impact on demographics, they want their kids to be the new aristocracy
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If nothing else, they'll be able to start a great punk band.
Yikes !
Their attitude to kids, based on that nightmarish Guardian interview, is extremely fucked. Hopefully their children will break the cycle.
I am very sure that the only reason they talk about positive eugenics is because negative eugenics, literally forcing some people to not have kids, is taboo. Then again they are pretty stupid and arrogant so maybe they really believe they're breeding superbabies....
The people of Muskogee will have their revenge on Jack Dorsey
A shame. Seems like they were clearly inspired by it .... I guess you can't copyright a vibe.
"Isn't this a racist thing to say? Not according to Hitler!"
Only got a paragraph in because of the cheerful citation of aporia (the big Nazi website)
I love how he goes on and on about how it actually totally makes sense for the average IQ in Malawi to be 60 because most people don't graduate school, ignoring that Lynn's methodology wasn't up to any basic standard
And by love I mean I fucking hate it
I read it in high school. Iirc, the main character in 1984 deeply hates a woman he works with and his violent fantasies about her are tied up in his desire to rebel against the regime. He later overcomes his desire to commit violence against her by having sex with her. His contempt for her fairly leapt off the page when I read it. I'm sure it's arguable what Orwell meant or intended.
In another scene, the middle-class protagonists watch a working-class woman hanging out washing and tell themselves that if there was any hope for freedom, it lay in "the proles" (members of the mass underclass, like that woman). But the way they look at her and talk about her is dehumanizing.
It's probably easier to just read 1984 yourself and make up your own mind. it's not a very long book.
Eurgh. I'm now feeling angry at the thought of someone who is doing a degree in global health but gets persuaded that AI safety is more important.
"pro-LGBT rights" here means "pro Peter Thiel". He gives them a lot of money.