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2dEdited

Nice conversation. In this case very smart to keep it shorter, or I’d not have listened.

Been reading Robin long enough to take him seriously on culture, as clearly the TFR problem is real.

Bryan hit on the key point that (I’m paraphrasing from memory) in his writings Robin comes across as “we’re doomed” and implicitly that pre-modern cultures were better, as opposed to what I got out of this conversation which is closer to “there’s a chance we might be doomed, so we should be spending some time and effort trying to figure out how to build an asteroid deflector”.

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How do you operationalize "better"?

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Believe we've already got a guy working on protecting humanity by expanding it to planets near and far. Don't know that we've got anyone working on convincing the gals to trade their awesome key-tapping, paper-pushing careers and future cats for a few years of screaming kids and providing the first guy with his space pioneers.

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Caplan does a good job pushing for family formation and pushing against Feminism which might be harming family formation. Good job for standing up against the taboo of criticizing women.

There is not a taboo against replacing domestic populations through mass migration and in fact one of the worst taboos is being pro your ethnic tribe (racism).

Caplan talks about replacing the bad non-baby-having genes which is pretty based but when paired with his support for mass migration it is pretty sinister.

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Who says a few hundred million Africans and Indians wouldn't fix just what ails tired North Americans, Europeans, and East Asians? Not me, brother!

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Fun final minute with Caplan preaching to be a societal non-conformist for your individual betterment and Hanson preaching for broader social change.

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