Baby girl born from record-setting 27-year-old embryo

Re:Baby girl born from record-setting 27-year-old embryo by IronRanger on Thursday December 03, 2020 @05:00AM (#25287404)

We should begin to harvest the eggs and sperm (or zygotes) of the most intelligent and productive people on the planet, and then pay people to bring those children to term and raise them. It would eliminate poverty.

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Re:Baby girl born from record-setting 27-year-old embryo by jointpdf on Thursday December 03, 2020 @05:47AM (#25287645)

Nice try, squid robot from The Matrix. "Harvesting" humans (or human ingredients) is for dystopias.

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Re:Baby girl born from record-setting 27-year-old embryo by google234123 on Thursday December 03, 2020 @05:03AM (#25287422)

Good lucking a significant number of people to actually brith and raise these children - even for a decent income.

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Re:Baby girl born from record-setting 27-year-old embryo by sokoloff on Thursday December 03, 2020 @08:24AM (#25288550)

I also have doubts that people who did this for an income are likely to raise them in a way that results in strongly productive adults, even after accounting for some amount of regression to the mean.

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Re:Baby girl born from record-setting 27-year-old embryo by IronRanger on Thursday December 03, 2020 @05:23AM (#25287527)

Failing the implantation of zygotes, we could just allow a free market for sperm. Why shouldn't women or couples be able to pay $10,000 for the DNA of men like Elon Musk?

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Re:Baby girl born from record-setting 27-year-old embryo by google234123 on Monday December 07, 2020 @06:45PM (#25339383)

This already exists

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Re:Baby girl born from record-setting 27-year-old embryo by OisinMoran on Thursday December 03, 2020 @05:34AM (#25287582)

There's a book called The Genius Factory about a failed attempt at this.

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Re:Baby girl born from record-setting 27-year-old embryo by dagw on Thursday December 03, 2020 @05:39AM (#25287613)

Google "The Nobel prize sperm bank". Someone had already tried.

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Re:Baby girl born from record-setting 27-year-old embryo by blackcats on Thursday December 03, 2020 @05:20AM (#25287508)

Genes is less than 50% for intelligence.

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