Episode 2192 Scott Adams: You Will Enjoy This Livestream While Getting Smarter & Drinking A Beverage
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The Importance of Spreading Your Genes
If you're worried that your goal is to spread your genes, I've heard people say that if you don't get married and have kids, you failed in life. By the fourth generation, all of your contribution will be randomized. You're only a few generations from being irrelevant. The fact that you might have contributed some genetic raw material to somebody five generations down is so trivial and so unimportant that they shouldn't be part of your decision making. Your DNA is the least important part of the whole process because there's plenty of DNA. So it really doesn't matter.
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