Thanks for sharing, this was helpful. As a meta point, it would be great for me if I had a way to help crowdfund some rigorous work (e.g., reviews, adversarial debates etc) exploring the arguments for and against EAs having children. I am increasingly on the fence.
The change in my views is largely driven by emerging beliefs that i) people having EA traits (e.g., being logical, compassionate and impartial) is perhaps most strongly linked to their genetics (see behavioural genetics etc) and ii) that funding EAs to have kids is going to be very hard to do at scale (for various coordination and PR reasons). I’d love someone to explore those and all the other arguments in more detail. Ideally a few people, some who want/​have kids, and some who don’t.
Thanks for sharing, this was helpful. As a meta point, it would be great for me if I had a way to help crowdfund some rigorous work (e.g., reviews, adversarial debates etc) exploring the arguments for and against EAs having children. I am increasingly on the fence.
The change in my views is largely driven by emerging beliefs that i) people having EA traits (e.g., being logical, compassionate and impartial) is perhaps most strongly linked to their genetics (see behavioural genetics etc) and ii) that funding EAs to have kids is going to be very hard to do at scale (for various coordination and PR reasons). I’d love someone to explore those and all the other arguments in more detail. Ideally a few people, some who want/​have kids, and some who don’t.
I’m writing about this kind of thing on my blog: https://​​juliawise.net/​​category/​​children-and-parenting/​​ I’m hoping to do some interviews with EAs about their choice to have or not have children and what led them there. I’d be excited to see more work here by others, too!