• witchonabike@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    I wasn’t aware he had more children than the one with the weird-ass name. The private life section on wikipedia is a ride…

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      1 year ago

      He ascribes to Longtermism and like his associate Jeffery Epstein, he thinks his genes are magically special, and so he wants as many offspring as humanly possible: while not actually giving one shit about the quality of life for any of them.

      It’s really interesting, because he fucking hates his own father (Errol is also a creep who fathered a child with his step-daughter, who he raised from childhood), but can’t put together that he is exactly the fuck the same as his creep ass father.

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        1 year ago

        Longtermism doesn’t have to do with one’s own personal genetics or lineage, though, and it certainly doesn’t belong to Elon.

        Longtermism is a notion coming out of population ethics, that since there will be more people in the future than there are today, that we should take the well-being of all those future people into account when making decisions today.

        This can be taken in lots of different directions — ranging from humanist environmentalism, to space migration, to concern about exotic existential risks.

        But a fixation on one’s own personal DNA is not really related to it at all. That’s more of a misunderstanding of evolutionary biology.