Build Your Own Supercomputer

The Natalist extremists are making superweapons now.

A new dangerous movement has developed, and they have some radical notions about children; namely, to have them. They're the Pro-Natalists, or just Natalists, and they're concerned with depopulation and low birth rates. They even have a conference - The Natal Conference. Lots of big minds and wealthy people go there to sound the alarm. It's all very technical though, very academic. Stuff like, "birth rates have fallen below replacement level, and "economic systems dependent on reliable growth will collapse" and such.

I was shocked to see there's a conference for this. Having children seems like a fundamental aspect of existence to me, like eating. Do we have Pro-Gastro conferences dedicated to encouraging people to eat again? All this time we inhabitants of the hinterland homeschoolers were having lots of kids because we liked them. Apparently we're hardline Pro-Natalists. Nice to be part of something big.

The Natalist tagline is great, "The future belongs to those who show up." True words. We're showing up, in spades.

If you check out the website¹ it looks like a pretty normal technical conference. Day 1 is a meet and greet, then keynote speakers to set the stage.² Then there's dinner, and after that, the After Party.

At the Natal Conference, the After Party from 9PM to midnight is where the Real Work gets done to find solutions to the problem - It takes grind, sweat, and for some, tears, to produce a solution. But hopefully many solutions are created, though in the darkness and general pandemonium of the party we're not sure.

Day 2 is smaller breakouts in an intimate setting to have quality intercourse. By intercourse I mean CONVERSATION, you heathens. The website describes the breakouts thusly: "Surround yourself with the leading minds working on this problem." and "Deep and honest conversation (closed door, no phones)" and finally "There will be some light vetting of participants." Whoa there! I'm guessing any woman below a 7 is "vetted" straight back to the curb. And any guy whose "conversation" isn't capable of being sufficiently deep is also sent packing.

I kid.

Pro-Natalism is great, but I'm not sure the theory will survive into practice. Having children is very difficult, and I'm not sure doing it for any other reason than a love and desire for children will get a parent through the hard times.

At 2AM, when your child with the flu has, somehow, missed the bucket again and done their own rendition of the Exorcist in the bed (Whenever I look at a kid's puke postmortem, I wonder if their little head was bopping around like one of those sprinklers: Barf-barf-barf-rettttccchhhhh!), and you know they only ate a sandwich today, yet somehow there's three *gallons* of barf in the bunk bed - As you wipe up, and gag, and silently curse (Only God-friendly curses like "Dang" and "Frickin'" mind you), you'll probably not think, "My Pro-Natalist efforts will result in the continuance and advancement of mankind." No, you'll think, "The only thing keeping me from leaving this kid out on the curb to be raised by raccoons is that I love them. For some reason. And I'd go to jail. And they'd get refuse in their hair."

No one in America has ever used the word "refuse" for garbage, but the founding Natalists (Simone and Malcolm Collins) are Brits so I've thrown them a grey-coloured bone.³

But I love the idea and I admire all those who are making the conference happen. Our world has serious problems. It's run by foolish people, and evil people, and worst kind of all, people that are foolish AND evil. The entire system of the State, the economy, and of nature has been twisted such that having children is difficult. The anti-natal propaganda is relentless. So many companies are harvesting wealth from our existence that the mere thought of bringing another expensive human into the world is exhausting. So we need the conference, and we need leading minds to figure out a way to unravel this Gordian knot.

People naturally love children and will have them if the conditions are right.

But to end the population crisis that will crop up sometime fifty years into the future isn't the best motivator. We need reasons for having children that are a bit more... practical.

So let's start with the two biggest reasons: Your wife's breasts. If she get's pregnant and breastfeeds, she will gain a cup size.

Men: Let me say that again - Your wife will gain a *cup size*​.

So if she's a B, she levels up to C. This is a Good Thing. Only small downside is that her breasts will be full of milk. During sex if you get too handsy, or mouthy, it might cause her to yell, "I'm letting down!" and frantically try to stop the milk spraying out. This is a Hilarious Thing. If you get some in your mouth, and I NEVER have, it's kindof sweet.

She'll also be burning 500 calories a DAY. Just sitting around. Making milk for me, er the baby, to drink is WORK. If a man does an agonizing, sweat inducing, hour long workout followed by a mile sprint, he'll burn... 11 Calories. Meanwhile she just burnt a marathon’s worth while knitting.

So she'll be svelte and busty. Also, her hair will be more lustrous, her eyes brighter, and her skin more firm; science (and my own careful observation) say that pregnancy *reverses* aging.⁴ So to summarize: If your wife is currently a 6, after the pregnancy (AFTER, mind you) she'll be a 7, maybe even an 8. Spend all the $$$ you want sending her to the spa, you'll never get those kind of numbers.

But there's a more important reason to have children, one that will appeal to the gents and the ladies: If you create a child, you'll be creating some very expensive, world-changing equipment.

Let me explain.

Google spends $100 billion annually on Deep Mind AI supercomputers. They have massive server farms using gigawatts of power. All to create a thinking machine. But Larry Page is on the verge of shutting the whole program down because the damn thing STILL can't make him a sandwich.

But you know who can make a sandwich? A four year old.

It's not until we see megacorps trying to re-create the human mind that we see how amazing it is. Our creative ability is incredible, specifically our ability to think laterally. In our mind, in a flash, points are connected that seem to have no relation. And out of that connection an entirely new thing is made. Only the human mind can create a constellation out of stars.

Of course, with vertical thinking computers are king. Ask a computer 2+2 and it will Excel. But ask it to name all things you can do with a baseball bat, a rope, and a towel, and you'll get no answer at all. Modern LLMs can sort of answer, but the answer is entirely derivative of existing human knowledge.

A child has a creative capacity superior to the most expensive and advanced supercomputers mankind can produce. Not only that, but a child (By the hand of God) has a handy training system already built in. They learn language, mannerisms, and physical action almost without effort. You can teach a child. A computer cannot be taught unless we first teach it to be taught. Talk to a computer all you want and nothing will result. Talk to a child, and by God (Literally), he'll start to talk back.

Then consider the wonder of the human body. Boston Dynamics has been working diligently to create a robot for YEARS, spending billions, and the result? The robot can carry a box. It can also walk and get up. All this requires a 150 pound battery pack... that lasts five minutes. Meanwhile, a child can run literally all day on the power generated by a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

When you have a child you've created an immortal super-computer, which is mounted on an ultra-light exoskeleton, and equipped with an advanced sensor suite, all powered by a high-endurance variable fuel system. Any nation that created it would have the ultimate weapon. And you can create it for free. In fact, making one is fun! Maintenance is cheap. Feed the superweapon sandwiches and it will be fine.

So I'm flabbergasted that a person would say, "No thanks. I'd rather have.... a cat." If Google offered to GIVE you their Deep Mind computer, would you say no? And why? Absurd.

But to my great regret, I haven't always been a Pro-Natalist. We have ten children, but it wasn't my dream to have ten children, it was my wife's. She liked having children, and I liked making them, so we had children. But after the glow and fun of a child, or children, wore off and the sheer grinding reality set in, I became resentful. Children *take*. They take and take and take, and when you feel you've given all a person can give, they need more.

I see as a grown man that I still take from my father - I need advice, and counsel, and that steady guide. It seems we must take from our parents forever, and even in their last moments we need just a bit more - That last word to comfort us. To hold our hand just bit longer, and to know that they loved us. Even with their last breath the parent must be prepared to give.

So I often resented my children. But the ultimate good of children for parents was slowly revealed to me through my wife's giving heart. She poured herself out for our children, and when she had poured herself out to the very last dregs, she gave more. I saw this, and at last understood the cup filled to overflowing that is the grace of God. It's only when we are brought to the last extremity, and your children will do that to you, that we learn to give more. A cup that's once been emptied will henceforth always be full. We learn, as a parent, to overflow with love for our children. And in so learning for our children, we get a glimpse of what it means to love still others further outside our circle. True love, mind you, not this telescopic philanthropy so prevalent today.

So by the grace of God my resentment slowly turned to gratitude, which is the first of all virtues. Now as my children reach adulthood I see them as the chief good of my life. And I'd do anything to ensure their freedom and success.

We need children. Yes, of course the Natalists are right, we need children in an economic sense. We need workers. We need geniuses. And it takes a lot of normal people to get one genius. So we need volume, and that means people having children. And genius or no, each human being is an incredible entity, capable of far more than any machine man can craft.

But also: WE need children. We as in the semi-adults in the world. We need children. We need a child so that we may learn to be mature. We need a child so we can remember child-like wonder. We need a child so we can remember what faith looks like. We need children. Without children we remain children, without children we're merely adults, never fully men or women.

Children aren't possible for some, and my heart goes out to you. But there's no shortage of opportunity, either through adoption, teaching, or mentorship. My pride in those I've mentored is nearly as great as my pride in my own children. We have an adopted child, and she's a delight. In fact I'd say there's never been more opportunity for those who want to help a child - There's so few true parents in the world.

So to all the Natalists out there, official or unofficial, thank you. Don't give up. And remember that the supercomputer will function as well as you train it, and no more. Plug it in, clean it up, and see what that baby can do!

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1. The Natal Conference Website

2. Several Substack luminaries will be speaking, such as Peachy Keenan and Raw Egg Nationalist. Peachy gave a speech at the 2023 conference and it was fantastic.

My Speech at the Natal Conference

3. More about the Malcolm family here and here

4. As much as eight years. Incredible