"I suspect evolution will quickly develop an immunity to the virus, reverting the harmful changes in merely a few generations."
Not with millions-soon-billions of super-intelligent people running around with the capacity to choose to fix that. Evolution will be dominated by human intelligence and intention at that point. It'll still exist, but, well, essentially the story is a Singularity story and we can't predict what will happen past the end of it.
Re:Jinnetic Engineering by Richard Stallman
by inerte on Wednesday April 28, 2010 @09:09AM
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Weak MALE in fact!
http://www.hackerfactor.com/GenderGuesser.html
:)
Re:Jinnetic Engineering by Richard Stallman
by cynicalkane on Wednesday April 28, 2010 @12:07PM
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Up until very recently evolution has been selecting in favor of intelligence. Otherwise we wouldn't have it. As for the claim that the dumb are out-reproducing the smart now; well, I'd say that's a consequence of smart people desiring to invest more in their kids, but it doesn't have to be that way in a different societal environment. In particular, I can't see free reproduction and globalizing civilization co-existing for many generations longer.
The story's narrator is supposed to be a woman, but the story has an unmistakably male voice. I can't pinpoint it exactly, but everyone I know who talks like that is male. Part of it may be that there is no discussion of her emotions at all, she sounds like a perfectly rational robot.
Also, considering the impact of voluntary ovulation and superior intelligence on reproductive fitness, I suspect evolution will quickly develop an immunity to the virus, reverting the harmful changes in merely a few generations.