Gina Stuessy A number of reasons: 1. Political beliefs appear to be...
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Gina Stuessy A number of reasons: 1. Political beliefs appear to be strongly heritable. As someone with minority political views (libertarian), I'm pessimistic that libertarian policies will be enacted unless/until libertarians out-reproduce those of other political ideologies. I'd like to serve as a model for how that can be done. 2. Birth rates in general are on the decline especially among high IQ individuals. I would like to reverse that trend. 3. If you mate with only one partner, you risk that your alleles will combine to produce a disappointing child, I like the idea of having multiple egg donors, to increase the chances that at least some of the children will turn out well. 4. US family law heavily favors women, and I don't like the idea of my spouse being able to cut me off from my children basically at will. 5. If I die or become incapacitated, I like the idea of a corporate structure that can carry on to care for my children in my absence. 6. I can buy much higher quality eggs than I can win via the dating market. Women who wouldn't look twice at me as a romantic partner may still sell me their eggs for the right price. 7. I'm curious to see how my genes will combine with women from a wide variety of cultures/ethnicities. What would my offspring with an Ethiopian/Israeli/Chinese/etc. woman look like? What interesting gene combinations will result when two people who wouldn't likely mate otherwise have children? 8. I'm curious to see how people with such a large sibling network will move through the world. Will they form alliances to create political/economic dynasties? Will they be emotionally close? Will older children mentor younger children? 9. I plan to be cryopreserved if I die before uploading becomes possible. Having a lot of offspring helps ensure that at least some of them will be around to revive me. 10. If cloning becomes available, and the n becomes large enough, I can conduct interesting experiments to help answer otherwise intractable scientific questions.