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I think that's part of it. But I think it's also the "low IQ/high IQ" meme template of "the best people should just have more kids". Their recent post on the EA forum is a lot more well-thought out than a post-hoc justification for hormonal instincts. It was poorly received by the EA community who correctly identified it as getting very close to the train of dissident right-wing thinking, although I mean that as a compliment rather than a criticism.
Yeah they are weird as hell, but I like it. Part of what I dislike about Effective Altruism is it seems like a fancy way for rationalists to just be boring liberals- longtermists with an egalitarian hangover, and they can't quite escape the orbit of those liberal presuppositions. This is especially evident in the comments of the EA forum:
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There is nothing about longtermism that requires "impartiality". Longtermism is nominally about civilizational trajectory, not egalitarianism (at least it should be).
The Collinses are trying to start a fertility cult. They have escaped orbit and their wacky adventures are going in the right direction from my view.
There is a long history of fertility cults. Arguably all religion, and politics for that matter, could be interpreted through the lens of different implementations of fertility cults. The Collins cult is myopic and not something I would support, but it's thinking in the right direction.
The Collins cult seems to be aiming for insularity, but it doesn't have to be a feature of any theoretical solution. The cult of Apollo is referenced by some in the DR as a breeding model which facilitated eugenic mate selection, and it was the center of many aspects of public life.
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