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Re:Science Is Getting Us Closer To The End of Infertility by opportune on Monday April 16, 2018 @05:19PM (#16852889)
Human society has already progressed beyond the usefulness of laissez-faire evolution as evidenced by obvious dysgenic trends. If you think about it, it makes sense: society and technology are now highly influential and dynamic over timespans that are barely a blip when it comes to evolution. There's also the fact that withholding this technology from people would effectively constitute eugenics, and in liberal democracies we tend to value peoples' individual rights in these situations.

Also humans are currently evolving to need technology to give birth due to the use of C-sections anyway [0].

I don't think it matters in the long term as you seem to believe. Within a few hundred years we'll probably have widespread genetic engineering or at least manual selection of traits. So in the short term this technology will help make people happy, and in the medium term the evolutionary effects on the human gene pool will be irrelevant.

[0] http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-38210837

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Re:Science Is Getting Us Closer To The End of Infertility by worldsayshi on Monday April 16, 2018 @06:04PM (#16853259)
Also in the future technology should become more self contained. Factories for producing any other factories should become widespread enough for technological supply chains to be ubiquitous. Let's hope that we can contain the environmental footprint as well. Ecological collapse would be the true interruption/hiccup in all this.
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Re:Science Is Getting Us Closer To The End of Infertility by Lionsion on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @06:36PM (#16862899)
> Also in the future technology should become more self contained. Factories for producing any other factories should become widespread enough for technological supply chains to be ubiquitous

Isn't this a variation on the idea that the internet would render censorship obsolete and ineffective?

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