He thinks most selection for the good stuff has come from higher level selection, not individual level selection, and cannot be done via individual level selection. I don't recall his argument for the latter claim, but I am skeptical.
Artificial wombs the final solution to boost fertility of busy professionals. A decade probably too early, but less than 2 decades for successful prototype. Lamb fetuses already up to 4 weeks (2017). https://metro.co.uk/2019/05/14/human-babies-born-using-an-artificial-womb-possible-in-a-decade-8156458/ …pic.twitter.com/6SXMhWNypV
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Observation that neither anti-abortion activists nor "my body, my rights" activists ever seem interested in exploring/funding artificial wombs, which appear to solve both side's issues. http://www.unz.com/akarlin/paper-review-artificial-wombs/ … But what can one expect from NPCs? (which both of those groups are).
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Oh brave new world ... First Orwell comes true, then Huxley.
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If you’re too busy to gestate a baby then, I’m going out on a limb here, you might be too busy to actually raise one.
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Okay, so werden neurotische Menschen für neurotische Menschen gezüchtet. Wenigstens wird dann die Sklaverei der Leihmütter obsolet.
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The consequences of this will be dire. I predict new terrible disorders on a scale that will cripple our socialised healthcare systems. Mind you, we still lack a robust investigation into differences between IVF kids and normally conceived kids.
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Possible consequences of no mother/child bonding during pregnancy?
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In fiction, the parents have the uterine replicator in their houses and play music to it during the day, talk to it at night. The system also plays simulated heartbeat and breathing sounds.
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OK, but what about the device that produces baby-sitters?
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There are fields, Neo, endless fields where human beings are no longer born.. we are grown.
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Only a matter of time before we have Eloi and Morlocks.
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Logan’s Run was not an instruction manual.
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How’s development of the Bokanovsky Process coming?
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If a fetus can be transferred into these then technology could end the abortion debate.
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How could it be abused?
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