Smart people: seriously, why aren't you breeding?

Blake Senftner, Mad computer scientist

Two reasons:

My “smartness” comes with a giant helping of anxiety, which I do not want to pass on. I suspect it’s genetic.

I feel like it is unethical to bring children into today’s world.

Plus, to have kids today, they are not yours , they are “owned” by society. Unless you can live/work at home and raise them with your interpersonal influences more than the influences of our popular and social media, your kids are imprints of society more than they are imprints of you and your values. And the values of our society are immature, short sighted, unrealistic, overall pretty bad…