holy fuck, I can’t stop picturing it

Guy fused a phylactery and a prophylactic, making a prophylactery.

(apologies for the necro-post?)

yeah filing this under my "ok so you know you can just have kinks, right? like you don't need to intellectually justify your kink. Have you seen a therapist?" folder

"Consider it from the perspective of someone who does not exist and therefore has no preferences. Who would they pick?"

I will find someone who I consider better than me in relevant ways,

Lemme guess, rich, white, asshole? (now I write this, I realise it could be about the author of the blog post too, and not just the bull he’s seeking).

These people continue to be so utterly delusional about the nature of success. The desperate need to believe that genetics is destiny, and that the ultra-wealthy got that way because they are also ultra-competent instead of merely being ultra-lucky and/or ultra-rapacious.

I guess the future is a race to see what comes first… the ultra-wealthy habsburging themselves into oblivion, the oceans boiling, or a resurgence in the construction of hand-built artisanal tumbrels.

It’s also telling how he shies away from bringing his line of thought to its logical conclusion: if you think you need to “optimize” your child’s genetics to perfection, why shouldn’t you try to optimize their environment like that as well? If you’re such an imperfect being with all your faulty genes after all then it’s probable you will make mistakes during parenting, so by your own logic thinking you would be suited to raise a child in the first place is a terrible crime no different from refusing cuckoldry.

And they call this “effective altruism”. Jesus Christ these people need help.

Tchah! Decker does not go far enough!

It is clear that there must be people better suited to raise children than a dimwit like him! He should arrange for his genetic superiors to breed, then give the babies to the perfect parents, and he should give them the one thing he has of value: money!

(and please have nothing else to do with children ever again, k thx bye)

I will find someone who I consider better than me in relevant ways, and have them provide the genetic material. I think that it would be immoral not to, and that it is impossible not to think this way after thinking seriously about it.

Corporate needs you to find the difference between this^ and our local cult leader is the sun god reborn, it's every woman's duty to carry his seed. It is immoral to deny his divine will.

Funnily enough he makes a really strong case as to why he specifically definitely shouldn't be a father.

If you asked an embryo to pick parents it'd be like "oof, anyone but that guy please"

Sorry for the tangent, but does it drive anyone else crazy when people claim this didn't exist/was never enacted? Humans with power suck, and feudalism wasn't particularly rife with checks and balances.

We know it happened because the idea and powerful men who were literally the law existed simultaneously.

I mean, I suspect that when he says he wants someone else's genes he probably means Elon's, so they probably wouldn't actually disagree over much. Because he's successful and success is determined by genes and therefore he has the best ones, you see.

Wait that's a strategy? I thought Mr. Musk was just in a sort of perpetual horny/lonely mid-life crisis mode or something like that.

Sorry, don't know how that happened

https://nicholasdecker.substack.com/p/why-your-children-shouldnt-be-your