About this episode
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. Support the show