Re:China’s embrace of embryo selection raises thorny questions
by TearsInTheRain on Thursday August 17, 2017 @05:20PM
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The problem is market forces will push towards eugenics. Societies that embrace it will likely outperform those that don't at least in the short term. This will probably lead to a loss of diversity though that will expose those societies to a greater risk of rare catastrophic events like epidemics. Those risks will likely get overlooked.
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Re:China’s embrace of embryo selection raises thorny questions
by mmirate on Thursday August 17, 2017 @06:00PM
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But do we know if, say, good intelligence alone (i.e. excluding physical strength/stamina/etc.), requires a sufficiently narrow genetic profile that anyone thusly engineered would be unusually susceptible to an epidemic?
Otherwise, countries which embrace "eugenics" (not sure if the word actually has expanded to mean what you think it means) most certainly do deserve to outperform countries which don't: the next generation of people in the pro-"eugenics" countries will literally be better humans.
Re:China’s embrace of embryo selection raises thorny questions
by TearsInTheRain on Friday August 18, 2017 @12:19AM
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We wont just engineer intelligence but will engineer every trait we can. If you have an idea of a perfect human, a society engaging in eugenics will see it's population distribution become taller and thinner and therefore, i think, more susceptible to negative shocks.