Why left-wingers hate differential psych & behavioral genetics. From http://www.udel.edu/educ/gottfredson/reprints/2011SocialInequality.pdf …pic.twitter.com/b8jpcPOnui
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(he refers to my possible plan about writing a book and literally having that be the title :P)
I mean, if social harmony suffers a lot from group diffs, then it makes sense to decrease them genetically if we can. Trouble is mostly that
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that biotech methods will have faster uptake among the rich & smart, even if they have to pay and it's free for poor people. Matthew effect.
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Yes, I understand, but honestly, as gwern said, to some extent I'm more optimistic about next 50 years with genetic engineering to lower…
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gaps than with 50 years of more environmental interventions. So far I just try to get people to understand that banning will *guarantee*...
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it only serves to increase inequality, and that the question is how we're going to do it, not if. Shared by some,seehttps://twitter.com/SilverVVulpes/status/837766640783720449 …
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I'm for market eugenics. Unfortunately our political systems will guarantee most of the world falls off a dysgenic cliff before it happens.
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I don't really think that's true, given speed of tech improving and slowness of dysgenic pressures
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Progress towards it will likely be anemic or even outlawed in Western nations thanks to obstruction by inane bioethicists.
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