Nobel sperm bank
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Nobel sperm bank is a recurring organization in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between January 24, 2021 and May 15, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “medium-term through having things like the Nobel sperm bank (but less badly done)”; “ving things like the Nobel sperm bank (but less badly done) available for people who want them”; “Something like the old Nobel Sperm Bank, where people with great socially-valuable gifts are encouraged to deposit gametes”. It most often appears alongside Dor Yeshorim, 60 Minutes, Adam Mastroianni.
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- Category: Organizations
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: January 24, 2021
- Last seen: May 15, 2023
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- Dor Yeshorim (2 shared issues)
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- 60 Minutes (1 shared issues)
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- Adam Mastroianni (1 shared issues)
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- Adraste (1 shared issues)
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- Ashkenazi Jews (1 shared issues)
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- August Derleth (1 shared issues)
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- Balaji Srinivasan (1 shared issues)
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- Beroe (1 shared issues)
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- BETA-MEALR (1 shared issues)
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- Bihar (1 shared issues)
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- Buck (1 shared issues)
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- Buck v. Bell (1 shared issues)
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3. Some people are predicting that now that the blog is back up NYT might still publish their article about me. I guess I have no right to object anymore. Balaji Srinivasan's rule about hit pieces is to get out in front of them and reveal any negative information they're going to use before they do. Right now the negative information I know they've collected is an incident in college where I was writing a humor thing in a college paper, tried to write a column mocking racists, did it so badly that people thought I was asserting the racism, then did a bad job apologizing afterwards. Someone else says they might use some old comments of mine to suggest I support eugenics. I support it in the sense of improving people's genetics and genetic outcomes - long-term through genetic engineering, medium-term through having things like the Nobel sperm bank (but less badly done) available for people who want them, and short-term through voluntary community-based efforts like Dor Yeshorim. I don't support any form of eugenics more coercive or racist than that. I think these are the main pieces of negative information on me they're pursuing, so I look forward to seeing them treat everything else I've done fairly and in-context.
Inline links: Nobel sperm bank, Dor Yeshorim
Beroe: Let’s say - financial incentives for the most talented people to have lots of children. Something like the old Nobel Sperm Bank, where people with great socially-valuable gifts are encouraged to deposit gametes, and couples who can’t conceive naturally - maybe infertile people, maybe lesbians - are encouraged to make use of them. And making voluntary contraception free and easily available, since by far the most common reason for the less-genetically-blessed part of the population having children is that they want contraceptives but can’t access them.
Coria: That’s fine. You have every right to oppose eugenics, but you must exercise that right in your capacity as a citizen of a democratic polity, not as some sort of impersonal arbiter of morality who gets to decide prima facie what actions are always and forever off limits. Paul Ehrlich estimated that what was best for the world was to pursue a sterilization campaign, and he lobbied the government for it. If you estimate that what’s best for the world is to never do sterilization campaigns, you should also lobby the government for that. I will believe both of you are good people trying to do the right thing as you understand it. Only one of you can be right, of course, but that reflects on your intelligence, not your morality. We can’t all be geniuses. At least not until Beroe gets her Nobel Sperm Bank!