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contributed. We really appreciate it. All right so now let's get to our show. Oh, Hi, I'm David Barr Hurley, author of the book Save Me, Please, and, and welcome to episode 579 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Our guest today is Malcolm Collins, co-host of the Baste Camp Podcast, in which Malcolm and his wife Simone provide contrarian

takes on a wide range of topics.

Malcolm and Simone have also written five books, including The Pragmatist Guide to Governance and the Pragmatist Guide to

crafting religion and they're both leading figures in the pro-Natalist movement

which encourages families to have more children in hopes of averting a future scenario called demographic collapse,

in which the global population falls at a rapid rate causing extreme societal disruption.

And in this interview we'll be discussing the idea of demographic collapse

and talking about some of the ways that artificial intelligence and genetic engineering might make it

better or worse. And now here's an interview with Malcolm Collins.

All right, so we're here with Malcolm Collins. Welcome to the show.

Hello, I am excited to be here today.

Okay, so first of all, just how big of a science fiction fan are you?

If you're asking how much of a connection do I still have to reality?

Tenitive. Tenitive.

Tenitive.

Science fiction has warped my brain, and now I believe that we are dealing with short timelines

and everything's about to change in major ways.

And when I predict or when I'm thinking about my own

children's future it often feels more like what in the 90s would have been

predicting what's going to happen in a hundred years.

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