Do you think embryo selection / genetic engineering for polygenic human traits would work? I.e. if someone were to spend a few years perfecting the technology for this, it would work.
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Replying to @KirkegaardEmil
But these two things are very different: ES - yes, even with todays tech (although models are not very good) GE - not in foreseeable future P.S. I work in genome research
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Replying to @LaurisKaplinski
If you think one is possible and the other not, then that means one of them is possible and the disjunctive is true, hence vote yes. GE, I see it easily doable soon (<5 years). How many edits do you really need to get some noticeable effect? Like pick the top 10 snps by beta.
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Replying to @KirkegaardEmil @LaurisKaplinski
I wonder about the idea of "mesh eugenics"(a concept I came up with)... couples intentionally giving birth to their biological grandchildren via artificial gametes and then doing embryo selection.
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See iterated embryo selection. https://www.gwern.net/Embryo-selection#history-of-ies …
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