The Religion of the Future Police
<p>Googleplex, the Google HQ in Mountain View, California, is an incubator for new religious movements. Ten years ago, Google hired Ray Kurzweil, prophet of the Singularity. In 2015, Google engineer Anthony Levandowski started The Way of the Future, a church to worship super-intelligent AI. And now we have the Religion of the Future Police, began by former Google manager Malcolm Collins and his wife Simone.</p>
<p>The Collinses came to my attention last month, thanks to a great article by Julia Black in Business Insider, called ‘<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/pronatalism-elon-musk-simone-malcolm-collins-underpopulation-breeding-tech-2022-11" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Can Super Babies Save the World’.</a> They’re the founders of <a href="https://pronatalist.org/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">pronatalist.org</a>, and part of a pronatalist movement growing in Silicon Valley and around the world. Pronatalists think the world is facing a population crisis: not too many people, but too few. They think civilization is threatened because of lowering birth rates, ageing populations and plummeting male fertility (average sperm count fell 50% between 1973 and 2019, and no one is sure why).</p>
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