Pronatalism and Silicon Valley’s Right-Wing Turn w/ Julia Black
May 18, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 168
Episode description
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.