Elon Musk’s quest to repopulate the Earth
by David Pierce from The Verge - All Posts on (#6171R)
Elon Musk is out to solve a lot of problems - including population collapse. Elon Musk's pinned tweet is from May. It's a chart from The Wall Street Journal showing that the US fertility rate has been below the replacement level" since the 1970s. USA birth rate has been below min sustainable levels for ~50 years," was Musk's contribution to the tweet. He's been talking about population decline for years, actually. He's even talked about it as one of the greatest issues facing humanity, and his solution is simple: have more kids, everybody!
Say this for Musk: dude practices what he preaches. Insider reported this week that Musk had twins last November with Shivon Zilis, a star in the AI world, a longtime colleague of Musk's at OpenAI and Tesla, and a current executive at Neuralink. The twins came to be in the...