I’ve written at length about the growing influence of pro-extinctionist sentiments within Silicon Valley. Pro-extinctionism is, roughly put, the view that our species, Homo sapiens, ought to go extinct.1Well, it looks like we just witnessed “the first example ever of someone openly being fired allegedly for wanting humanity to end.” At least that’s what some folks are saying, but I think this is misleading. The person in question wasn’t fired for being a pro-extinctionist. They were fired for ho...