China Is Engineering Genius Babies (2013)

Re:China Is Engineering Genius Babies (2013) by CyberDildonics on Thursday July 27, 2017 @12:42PM (#14866978)

This article is a train wreck of nonsense, misunderstanding and predictions of the future. It is just talking about research of finding correlation in genomes and intelligence. Also Japan is the largest holder of US treasuries, followed closely by china.

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Re:China Is Engineering Genius Babies (2013) by pcnonpc on Thursday July 27, 2017 @12:49PM (#14867055)

The East Asian culture strongly values intelligence and education. The parents there WILL act on embryo selection and genetic engineering when it is available and safe.

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Re:China Is Engineering Genius Babies (2013) by CyberDildonics on Friday July 28, 2017 @11:47AM (#14875113)

The point is that the article is taking bits of research into simple correlation and extrapolating that into embryo selection, guesses about IQ points being raised and all sorts of other things. It shouldn't be taken seriously in any way.

> The parents there WILL act on embryo selection and genetic engineering when it is available and safe.

It seems a bit of a reach to be so adamantly sure of what other people will do in an already predicted future.

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Re:China Is Engineering Genius Babies (2013) by jack9 on Thursday July 27, 2017 @12:48PM (#14867041)

> Also Japan is the largest holder of US treasuries, followed closely by china.

What's the point of that? 2017 is not 2013.

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Re:China Is Engineering Genius Babies (2013) by CyberDildonics on Friday July 28, 2017 @08:23AM (#14873693)

Was it different then and now?

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