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Re:Biology is the New Tech: Letter from a conference on CRISPR by doctorpangloss on Sunday July 28, 2019 @02:42AM (#20546177)
Let's say we lived in the centuries old, long debunked eugenicist's fantasy you think is reality.

We'd sooner use gene editing to make people more empathetic, briefer in their words, less absolutist, less looking at things as "programmer problems," less engineery. Higher "EQ."

Re:Biology is the New Tech: Letter from a conference on CRISPR by gwern on Sunday July 28, 2019 @10:25AM (#20547695)
Empathy measures correlate with IQ: https://www.gwern.net/docs/iq/2019-schlegel.pdf#page=4