Silicon Valley Eugenics & Population Collapse
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Humanity is heading into a population crisis: fewer people are having kids, and policy isn't being passed to change that. Funded by venture capital, new industries are emerging out of silicon valley as part of a 'new natalism' emerging in wealthy circles. Levon and Andrey discuss the implications of this, including the slippery slope to eugenics, and the nature of what makes us human.
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