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Writer at @WIRED. Author of NYT bestseller 'Chaos Monkeys'. Formerly @Facebook, @YCombinator, @GoldmanSachs. Yes, I live on a boat and in a yurt. 🇺🇸🇪🇸

Orcas Island, WA
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    1. Adam Singer‏Verified account @AdamSinger Nov 6

      Camera roll on my phone for last 2 months is all pictures of Dash. Basically I now know what it's like to have human kids. But the dog is better really. Always listens. Protects me. Unconditional love. Can't fail at life and inevitably disappoint.

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    2. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Nov 6
      Replying to @AdamSinger

      Kids still better. They're way smarter than a dog, and you can watch a human consciousness emerge, and even shape it. Also, they outlive you.

      1 reply 0 retweets 8 likes
    3. Adam Singer‏Verified account @AdamSinger Nov 6
      Replying to @antoniogm

      I'm not super excited about the whole 'having to be conscious/ self-aware' thing so not forcing it on another. Seems cruel.

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    4. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Nov 6
      Replying to @AdamSinger

      That's anti-natalist sophistry. I've yet to see any of the serious promulgators of the view blow their brains out to undo the burden of consciousness.

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    5. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Nov 6
      Replying to @antoniogm @AdamSinger

      In our sheltered, untragic lives, children are the last thing that force you to become an adult. Without children (or serious hardship), humans themselves remain children. Which is why our bicoastal elite cities are largely populated by 18-year-olds of all ages.

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    6. Adam Singer‏Verified account @AdamSinger Nov 6
      Replying to @antoniogm

      Subjective take. I know plenty of older people with no children who are happy with that decision and very much 'adults'. Anyway there's 7 billion people now, the species is successful. There is no more burden on any single person to breed.

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    7. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Nov 6
      Replying to @AdamSinger

      They're far outnumbered by those who want to have kids, but can't, as our now-huge fertility industry attests. Also, they don't know what they're missing. Would you accept the opinion of the celibate on sex, or those who've never been in combat on war? No. Why accept theirs?

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    8. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Nov 6
      Replying to @antoniogm @AdamSinger

      The reason I'm so sure in my opinion is that I've been them, but they've not been me. There's total information asymmetry, and the childless basically have no idea what they're talking about (sorry, being auntie to some nephew every Thanksgiving doesn't count).

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    9. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Nov 6
      Replying to @antoniogm @AdamSinger

      I would have floated all these arguments myself, and in fact did years ago. Then I had unplanned children with a woman I barely knew (twice). I would never have made that conscious choice, but I accepted it when it happened, and it changed everything.

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    10. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Nov 6
      Replying to @antoniogm @AdamSinger

      Another formative experience was spending months inside a cancer unit watching my mother slowly die. Watched other people die in other rooms too. It was an entire mini-town of death. Sometimes the rooms were bustling and full of crying, heartbroken people, which was sad.

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      Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Nov 6
      Replying to @antoniogm @AdamSinger

      The saddest rooms though were the empty ones, with one solitary, emaciated figure inside. Nobody came in or out but the nurses. I find it odd that so many people these days choose to end their days surrounded by cat litter and Chardonnay (or whatever), and then that empty room.

      8:47 AM - 6 Nov 2018 from Seattle, WA
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        1. Adam Singer‏Verified account @AdamSinger Nov 6
          Replying to @antoniogm

          Having almost died in the ER alone this year, I am no longer afraid. But would prefer to go at the beach if at all possible. I'll forgo the prolonged stay in pain...

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        2. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Nov 6
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          But they probably don't think about it, because they're still children. Adulthood is when you finally--in a visceral not intellectual way--understand you're going to die. And unless you're a complete narcissist, that'll turn your thoughts to something else, something bigger.

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        3. Adam Singer‏Verified account @AdamSinger Nov 6
          Replying to @antoniogm

          We can disagree here. Not having kid is greenest thing you can do for the planet. It's actually the opposite of narcissism to not want to create a miniature version of yourself. Besides there are plenty of things (science, art) you can do besides breed that help the future.

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        1. Miss M‏ @patel_miki Nov 6
          Replying to @antoniogm @AdamSinger

          I have a child- he truly is the love of my life. I will give him everything I have but I am not sure if I can say I won’t be an empty room. Your karma drives everything. Children or no children.

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        1. Miss M‏ @patel_miki Nov 6
          Replying to @antoniogm @AdamSinger

          I think people make their choices and those choices should be respected. In the end our life is a result of some of those choices. There are people who have children and end up in a empty room.

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