Pro natalist movement by people who think their offspring will be genetically superior

[Anonymous]

https://www.businessinsider.com/pronatalism-elon-musk-simone-malcolm-collins-underpopulation-breeding-tech-2022-11

These people sound like if DCUM collectively wrote a dystopian novel, except they are real. Insane.

Along with his 3-year-old brother, Octavian, and his newborn sister, Titan Invictus, Torsten has unwittingly joined an audacious experiment. According to his parents' calculations, as long as each of their descendants can commit to having at least eight children for just 11 generations, the Collins bloodline will eventually outnumber the current human population.

Their wardrobes, Simone told me later, are meticulously curated to project the kind of gravitas their work requires. Beneath their thick, black-rimmed glasses — hers round, his rectangular — the couple look, as they would put it, "biologically young."

By the way, I am not anti kids. I have four, might have more. But these people creep me out.

[Anonymous]

Given that one of Musk’s kids is already changing names so as to avoid being associated with Musk, I’d say this is rather a stretch.

[Anonymous]

Anyone have a non-paywalled version or can at least copy a few of the funniest quotes?

[Anonymous]

LOL. They aren't very bright. Their plan of having 8 kids each for 11 generations would require extensive inbreeding, creating genetically inferior offspring.

[Anonymous]

They look physically week. I would not call that genetically superior. Now if they were both hot and super intelligent that would be impressive.

[Anonymous]

Soon they will grow them in lit up fishlike wall tanks in their living room. Won’t even have to carry the pregnancy. Could do all 8 at once with their fish baby tanks. Scary scary world.

[Anonymous]

Honestly we have a birthrate problem. I don't care who's having kids as long as they're having them, even these a holes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone have a non-paywalled version or can at least copy a few of the funniest quotes?

Genomic Prediction is one of the first companies to offer PGT-P, a controversial new type of genetic testing that allows parents who are undergoing in vitro fertilization to select the "best" available embryos based on a variety of polygenic risk factors.

The Collinses became the public face of the technology after being featured in a May Bloomberg article, "The Pandora's Box of Embryo Testing Is Officially Open." After the piece went live, Malcolm said, they began hearing from wealthy pronatalists around the country.

"We are the Underground Railroad of 'Gattaca' babies and people who want to do genetic stuff with their kids," Malcolm told me.

[Anonymous]

The Collinses also developed a system to track their family's future progress called The Index. "We record how your kids do emotionally, how your kids do in terms of their career, and do your kids stay within the culture they were raised with," Malcolm explained. He said he looked forward to watching his own children disagree with his parenting paradigm and expected them to be competitive enough to come up with their own. Then, 11 generations down the line, when the extended Collins family is the Earth's (or Mars') dominant culture, they'll have hundreds of years' worth of data to look back on and learn from.

[Anonymous]

This article reminds me of a hilarious McSweeney's piece, https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/our-daughter-isnt-a-selfish-brat-your-son-just-hasnt-read-atlas-shrugged

[Anonymous]

My descendents will fight them in the Thunderdome with dead iPad and rule our dystopian future with an iron fist.

[Anonymous]

Also, one bad sunburn is going to kill off this entire family.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

The Collinses also developed a system to track their family's future progress called The Index. "We record how your kids do emotionally, how your kids do in terms of their career, and do your kids stay within the culture they were raised with," Malcolm explained. He said he looked forward to watching his own children disagree with his parenting paradigm and expected them to be competitive enough to come up with their own. Then, 11 generations down the line, when the extended Collins family is the Earth's (or Mars') dominant culture, they'll have hundreds of years' worth of data to look back on and learn from.

These are more the deluded comments of a future parent rather than someone who already has kids but good for them, I guess?

[Anonymous]

Here’s a link https://archive.ph/2022.11.17-150216/https://www.businessinsider.com/pronatalism-elon-musk-simone-malcolm-collins-underpopulation-breeding-tech-2022-11

[Anonymous]

They are neurodiverse. Surprise, surprise.