China’s embrace of embryo selection raises thorny questions

Re:China’s embrace of embryo selection raises thorny questions by sannee on Thursday August 17, 2017 @05:21PM (#15041143)

I think that for humanity to "move forward"/"become interplanetary" or what have you, this is a necessary step. Being selfish however, I am afraid of being rendered useless by the incoming generation of superhumans :)

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Re:China’s embrace of embryo selection raises thorny questions by Jach on Thursday August 17, 2017 @05:26PM (#15041176)

Why not have a kid to rid you of some of that selfishness? What parent doesn't want their children to be better in every sense than they were?

For myself it'd be nice to join the superhuman future directly (CRISPR? Mind emulation? Cyborg replacements?), but I'd settle for them being nice to me like present society is nice to its retired elders.

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Re:China’s embrace of embryo selection raises thorny questions by gwern on Thursday August 17, 2017 @05:29PM (#15041205)

> Being selfish however, I am afraid of being rendered useless by the incoming generation of superhumans :)

Don't worry, you still have at least a decade and half to start saving up & investing in global stock indexes. A rising tide lifts global equity indexes!

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