Pronatalism and Silicon Valley’s Right-Wing Turn w/ Julia Black

18/05/2023 1h 1min Episodio 168
Pronatalism and Silicon Valley’s Right-Wing Turn w/ Julia Black

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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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