I went looking for the confabulation between wealth and intelligence, and sure enough: > Musk was echoing an argument made by Nick Bostrom, one of the founding

I went looking for the confabulation between wealth and intelligence, and sure enough: > Musk was echoing an argument made by Nick Bostrom, one of the founding fathers of longtermism, who wrote that he worried declining fertility among "intellectually talented individuals" could lead to the demise of "advanced civilized society." There's nothing wrong (at least, in my view) with having kids. But I can think of few things more intellectually embarrassing than a wealthy person bear-trapping themselves into a reactionary pro-natalist worldview because they think they're uniquely intelligent.