Effective Altruism From Ineffective Breeders

It’s not Halloween and these aren’t costumes:

Meet the ‘elite’ couples breeding to save mankind

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By Io Dodds for the Telegraph, 17 April 2023

…from NATIONAL SOCIALISTS!!!

At the beginning of March, Aria Babu quit her job at a think tank to dedicate herself to something most people have never heard of. Having worked in public policy for several years, the 26-year-old Londoner had come to an alarming realisation about the future of the UK, the world – and the human species.

‘It became clear to me that people wanted more children than they were having,’ Babu says. ‘Considering this is such a massive part of people’s lives, the fact that they were not able to fulfil this want was clearly indicative that something was wrong.’

Somebody got baby rabies and conflated herself with “people”.

The new focus of Babu’s career is a philosophy known as pronatalism, literally meaning pro-birth. Its core tenet is deceptively simple: our future depends on having enough children, and yet life in developed countries has become hostile to this basic biological imperative.

My smirk at this statement of the blindingly obvious faded as I realized she was serious. Will she go all the way to realizing that the antinatalist hostility is intentional and carefully funded?

Linked to the subcultures of rationalism and ‘effective altruism’ (EA), and bolstered by declining birth rates, it has been gaining currency in Silicon Valley and the wider tech industry – especially its more conservative corners.

‘I’ve been in various text threads with technology entrepreneurs who share that view… there are really smart people that have real concern around this,’ says Ben Lamm, a Texas biotech entrepreneur whose company Colossal is developing artificial wombs and other reproductive tech (or ‘reprotech’) that could boost future fertility.

That’s not how reproduction works. “Okay, I’ve set up the CRISPR for DNA recombination… found a mix of organic fluids to function as a growth medium… but we need a way to add a carefully monitored amount of proteins and other nutrients over time… what about an immune system? Gosh, if only there was a way to automate this… maybe we could genetically modify a pig…”

In the time it’ll take him to secure venture capital funding, Dumb and Dumber will become grandparents. And frankly, I’ll feel better off with them for neighbors instead of the mad scientists. Uncle Cooter might not know calculus but he at least knows what women are for.

‘We are quite familiar with the pronatalist movement and are supporters of it,’ says Jake Kozloski, the Miami-based co-founder of an AI matchmaking service called Keeper, which aims to address the ‘fertility crisis fueled by a marriage crisis’ by helping clients find the other parent of their future children.

‘I encourage people who are responsible and smart and conscientious to have children, because they’re going to make the future better,’ says Diana Fleischman, a pronatalist psychology professor at the University of New Mexico and consultant for an embryo-selection start-up (she is currently pregnant with her second child).

Fleischman. Every single time.

The Jews have a serious problem. They’ve managed to bleed the white, Christian West… ah, white… thanks to the unprecedented Cuck-up of Christianity. They tried to arrange an exodus to China, which failed, then arranged an exodus to India. Which as one of my readers pointed out, they aren’t really pursuing.

India is wealthy only in the sense of having a billion people with one dollar each. Worse, light-skins cannot blend into that population, and there are few places more race- and caste-aware. The “hello, fellow white Judeo-Christians!” routine isn’t gonna work.

They cannot stop being parasites and they cannot parasite off low-trust clannish races. Most of whom have no real wealth to steal. The River Ganges is not a tourist destination, it’s a corpse dumping opportunity.

They cannot stay, won’t leave and would rather die than show mercy.

Solution: manufacture new whites in laboratories for profit, like livestock. Hardly a new idea. Its current branding is “effective altruism”.

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Effective altruism is a philosophical and social movement that advocates “using evidence and reason to figure out how to benefit others as much as possible, and taking action on that basis”…

Prominent philosophers influential to the movement include Peter Singer, Toby Ord, and William MacAskill. Several books and many articles about the movement have since been published, and the Effective Altruism Global conference has been held since 2013.

Singer was a tenured professor, infamous eugenicist and promoter of infanticide before infanticide was cool. I remember there was actual pressure to get his tenure revoked for advocating the murder of children, but I disagreed. It’s important for the young to see that some monsters are pleasant people wearing business suits and lab coats.

Billions of dollars have been committed based on effective altruistic principles, by philanthropists who include Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz. Prior to late 2022, a major funder was Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, though its bankruptcy has since been a source of controversy and criticism of the movement.

Trotsky on the left, Sam Bankster-Fraud on the right.

According to MacAskill, the view of effective altruism as doing the most good one can within a defined budget can be compatible with a wide variety of views on morality and meta-ethics, as well as traditional religious teachings on altruism such as in Christianity.

Altruism is a sin in Christianity. You care first for yourself, then for your family, then for your people. YOUR people.

The philosophy of effective altruism has been criticized in practice as masking a culture of predatory behavior by some self-described effective altruists.

Yeah, a ((culture)) of predatory behavior. Cui Fundo?

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At the centre of it all are Simone and Malcolm Collins, two 30-something American entrepreneurs turned philosophers – and parents – who say they are only the most outspoken proponents of a belief that many prefer to keep private. In 2021 they founded a ‘non-denominational’ campaign group called Pronatalist.org, under the umbrella of their non-profit Pragmatist Foundation. Buoyed by a $482,000 (£385,000) donation from Jaan Tallinn, an Estonian tech billionaire who funds many rationalist and EA organisations, it is now lobbying governments, meeting business leaders, and seeking partnerships with reprotech companies and fertility clinics.

Tallinn started life as a good computer wizard and bad businessman. He became an overnight plutocrat when Google bought out his startup company, after which he became a prophet of postmodernism. Of rationalism, excuse me. I gotta keep up with the marketing.

The Collinses did not coin the word ‘pronatalism’, which has long been used (along with ‘natalism’) to describe government policies aimed at increasing birth rates, or mainstream pro-birth positions such as that of the Catholic Church. Its opposite is ‘anti-natalism’, the idea that it is wrong to bring a new person into the world if they are unlikely to have a good life. Lyman Stone, a natalist demographer and research fellow at the US’s Institute for Family Studies, has described the Collinses’ philosophy as ‘a very unusual subculture’ compared to millions of everyday natalists. Yet it is their version – a secular, paradoxically unorthodox reconstruction of arguably the most traditional view on earth, driven by alarm about a looming population catastrophe – that is prospering among the tech elite.

If you cannot violate the Narrative long enough for a one-night stand with your spouse, then I’m torn between admiration at your piety and pity at your sawn-off pecker. Oh, that’s right. Eunuchs are immune to certain temptations.

The problem, [Malcolm] concedes, is that falling birth rates are also a common preoccupation of neo-Nazis and other ethno-nationalists, who believe they are being outbred and ‘replaced’ by other races. ‘A lot of alleged concerns about fertility decline are really poorly masked racist ideas about what kinds of people they want on the planet,’ says demographer Bernice Kuang of the UK’s Centre for Population Change.

The Collinses strongly disavow racism and reject the idea that any country’s population should be homogenous. Still, Babu finds that many in the rationalist and EA community, which skews pale and male, are wary of exploring pronatalism – lest they be ‘tarred with the brush of another white man who just wants an Aryan trad-wife’.

“It’s not Aryanism! I just want a baby!”

[Skip references to Austrian corporals.]

Some more illiberal countries are already shifting in this direction. China has begun restricting abortions after decades of forcing them on anyone who already had one child. Russia has revived a Soviet medal for women with 10 or more children. Hungary, where fertility long ago dropped below 2.1 births per year per woman – the ‘replacement rate’ necessary to sustain a population without immigration – has tightened abortion law while offering new tax breaks and incentives for motherhood. Following the end of Roe v Wade in the US, Texas has proposed tax cuts for each additional child, but only if they are born to or adopted by a married heterosexual couple who have never divorced.

Texas will reduce your taxes if you anchor a migrant anchor baby. That’s totally not a pay-to-play immivasion scam.

Though they define themselves politically as conservatives – Malcolm invariably votes Republican – they claim to favour LGBT rights and abortion rights and oppose any attempt to pressure those who don’t want children into parenthood.

“I’m a bisexual Republican!”

“Hi, I’m a Christian feminist!”

Unite to form… not a baby.

It was on the couple’s second date, sitting on a rooftop and gazing out at the nearby woods, that Malcolm first raised the prospect of children. Simone’s response was not enthusiastic.

‘I was very excited to spend my life alone, to never get married, to never have kids,’ she recalls. ‘People would be like, “Do you want to hold the baby?” I was one of those who’s like, “No, you keep it. I will watch that baby from behind glass and be a lot more comfortable.”’

As she says this, her five-month-old daughter Titan Invictus – the couple refuse to give girls feminine names, citing research suggesting they will be taken less seriously – is strapped to her chest, occasionally burbling, while Malcolm has charge of their two sons Torsten, two, and Octavian, three. They live in the leafy suburbs of Philadelphia, balancing parenthood with full-time jobs as co-chief-executives of a travel company, writing books about pronatalism, and their non-profit projects (to which they donated 44 per cent of their post-tax income last year). They project an image of accentuated preppiness, dressing in ultra-crisp country club, business casual when photographers visit, and are effusive and open to the press. Malcolm starts our interview by saying, ‘Absolutely spectacular to meet you!’

But beneath their smiling, plastic, neo-feminist surface…

Both dealt with adversity in their own youths. Malcolm, 36, was held by court order in a centre for ‘troubled’ teenagers, where he was told by staff that if he resisted they would simply invent new infractions to keep him locked up. Simone, 35, now needs hormone therapy to menstruate regularly and IVF to conceive a child due to years of anorexia.

Back then, Simone was a textbook anti-natalist. She grew up as the only child of a failed polyamorous marriage among California hippies, where her understanding of a wedding was ‘everyone puts on masks in the forest and there’s a naked sweat lodge’. She was also a ‘mistake baby’, who watched her mother struggle with shelving her career ambitions.

If any SJWs are reading this… the people who hurt you were not Christ or His followers. They were the atheists, feminists and Marxists, and they hurt you so they could control you forever.

Want out? Acknowledge God and make peace with Him. I cannot promise you mortal healing, but I can promise that you will escape the slavers who literally broke you to the collar.

It begins with male headship because this ain’t the way to a life worth living:

What changed Simone’s mind was not any kind of Stepfordian conversion but a simple promise from Malcolm that she would not have to surrender her career. So it proved. She took no time off during Octavian’s gestation, answered business calls while in labour, and returned to the office five days after his birth. She stays with each child continuously for their first six months, carrying them in a chest harness while working at a treadmill desk, after which Malcolm handles the bulk of child-raising. She finds she gets a productivity bump with each newborn – ‘You’re up every three hours anyway, so why not knock off some emails?’

These personal epiphanies might not have translated into political ones except for Malcolm’s stint as a venture capitalist in South Korea, where the fertility rate is the lowest in the world at 0.8. He was shocked that nobody seemed to regard this as an emergency.

If Mommy’s happy then there are never any problems.

Most demographers do not consider this a crisis, according to Bernice Kuang. ‘In pop culture, there’s so much really alarmist talk about fertility and population implosion, and that just doesn’t really come up in the same way in academia,’ she says… Many experts also see overall population decline as a good thing, arguing that it will help prevent or mitigate climate change and other problems.

((Harvard)) is not worried about the demographic death of the West? Shocker.

But pronatalists argue that problems will manifest long before this, as working-age people begin to be outnumbered by older ones. The global economy is predicated on the assumption of continual growth in GDP, which is strongly linked to population growth. ‘If people assume that the economy is going to shrink in future, and shrink indefinitely, then it’s not just a recession – it’s like there’s no point investing in the future,’ says Babu, who defines her politics as economically liberal, feminist, and pro-immigration. ‘If that happens, your pension breaks down because your pension is gambled on the stock market. You withdraw your savings; the government can’t borrow. A lot of these structures just break down.’

They’re so materialist that they see EVERYTHING in dollar costs. Can we afford to manufacture a baby? Pros: our retirement programs get more funding. Cons: we might be accused of Not-See loyalties.

I’m serious:

[The] Collinses fear that as fertility declines it will not be some racial Other who outbreeds everyone else but each culture’s equivalent of the neo-Nazis. ‘We are literally heading towards global Nazism, but they all hate each other!’ says Malcolm.

Yeah, what’s up with us natalist nationalists hating each other? We should be hating ourselves instead!

For the Collinses, all of this is only part of the crisis, because the fertility of different cultural groups is not declining uniformly. Research by Pronatalist.org found that higher birth rates are associated with what some psychologists call the ‘Right-wing authoritarian personality’ – or, as Malcolm puts it, ‘an intrinsic dislike and distrust of anybody who is not like them’. That is, says Malcolm, emphatically not his or Simone’s brand of conservatism, which welcomes immigration and wants a pluralistic, multicultural society in which all groups are free to raise their children in their own way of life. [However, their brand of socially just conservatism has] fewer children on average, not least because of a widespread despair about climate change among millennials and Gen Z.

 

The only hope is to find those few families that combine liberal, pluralistic politics, such as support for LGBT rights, with high fertility – or create new, hybrid micro-cultures that value both – and help them multiply.

“I transitioned at the age of ten, now I’m sterile and want to have my own kids because the Christians won’t let me play with theirs. I hope I can afford to fuck a pig-cubator, or my pension plan is toast.”

It’s !Science!

This is where technology comes in. ‘Many of the groups that we are concerned about disappearing – gay couple couples, lesbian couples – from a traditional organs-bumping-together standpoint, can’t have kids… that are genetically both of theirs,’ says Simone. ‘That certainly dissuades some people from having kids entirely.’ A still-nascent technique called in vitro gametogenesis (IVG), which grows eggs and sperm directly from stem cells, could change this.

Then there are those who struggle with inheritable problems such as depression and schizophrenia. Diana Fleischman says she knows many ‘wonderful people’ who are leery about having children for this reason. Such problems could be mitigated by genetic screening and embryo selection. Titan was born through just such a process, the Collinses tell me, winning out over other embryos that had higher estimated risks of traits such as obesity, migraines and anxiety.

*A moment of silence for the unborn children murdered by Mommy Cares*

The idea of using birth rates to influence future politics is one many will find alarming… Fleischman says she has encountered this too: ‘A lot of this is secret, because it’s just not socially acceptable to say, “I’m going to use my wealth to make as many half-copies of myself as possible. I’m going to photocopy myself into the future.”’

First they sterilized themselves with their political beliefs, now they want to breed because they don’t want the future to belong to Narrative Violators. At what point will they realize their spawnling is a human being? When Titan wants to play with ponies instead of Antifa?

In the meantime, the Collinses hope to have at least four more babies, unless they are thwarted by complications from repeated C-sections. ‘When I look into the eyes of our children,’ says Simone, ‘and I see all the potential they have… and I think about a world in which they didn’t exist because we thought it was inconvenient? I’m like, I can’t. I can’t not try to have more kids.’

Poor Simone is oppressed and doesn’t even know it.

Which is it gonna be, ((Elites))? You can’t teach both. It locks up the NPCs.