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Re:Malaria vaccine delivered by a mosquito bite by wizzwizz4 on Wednesday November 27, 2024 @02:51PM (#42259116)
We can do basically this today. I could probably do it, if I decided to throw my entire life away (which, if I'm considering killing, is the minimum bar anyway) – though, not reliably and not without side effects. For an organisation of significant size, it's a question of how sophisticated they'd want to be.

The main obstacle to your sci-fi scenario is that, to date, no such "contrarian gene" has been identified. In fact, most traits you'd want to genocide away seem tenuously related to particular alleles, at best. Unless we start seeing fanatical HERC2 purists, or the people making bioweapons decide they don't care about collateral in the War Against Redheads, we're probably safe from genetically-selective mosquito-induced heart attacks.

Re:Malaria vaccine delivered by a mosquito bite by kelipso on Wednesday November 27, 2024 @08:52PM (#42261654)
I think contrarian just means high IQ lol. Also hard to test genetically. No offense!
Re:Malaria vaccine delivered by a mosquito bite by artistic_regard on Wednesday November 27, 2024 @08:54PM (#42261664)
> I think contrarian just means high IQ lol

We could start fixing the reversal of the Flynn effect if you killed yourself.

Re:Malaria vaccine delivered by a mosquito bite by kelipso on Wednesday November 27, 2024 @10:48PM (#42262257)
Very intelligent response, good job!
Re:Malaria vaccine delivered by a mosquito bite by artistic_regard on Thursday November 28, 2024 @01:22AM (#42262916)
U are damn right!