In the prog view, fertility should be decoupled from resources, and all survive. So, the only legitimate selection is differential fertility
@Outsideness @hbdchick biology and genetics are so complicated, lots of unintended consequences possible. editing genome is not going to be
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@Outsideness@hbdchick easy to get right, and knowing what to edit is going to be hard. and then there's the cost, and the fact that people -
@Outsideness@hbdchick like to do it the old fashioned way. and civilization going downhill in the meantime. and SJWs preventing it -
@Outsideness@hbdchick so, much like good AI always seems 20 years away, so too will substantial human genetic engineering -
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@Outsideness@hbdchick even with that, only a tiny percentage of people would do it, well under 1%. getting eggs is nontrivial -
@Outsideness@hbdchick not to mention that in the case of intelligence embryo selection probably won't get you very far because so manygenes -
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@Outsideness@hbdchick infotech/big data will help, for sure. and to be fair even human genome sequencing seemed enormous task 20 yrs ago -
@Outsideness@hbdchick ...on the other hand, I'm not sure Moore's Law has much time left in it.
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