Emil O W Kirkegaard

Antonio Regalado continues his series of quite accurate & up to date reporting on the future of genomics. Liberal eugenics is upon us. Ban it and other countries will use it for extreme competitive advantages, and your citizens will fly there for treatment https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610339/dna-tests-for-iq-are-coming-but-it-might-not-be-smart-to-take-one/ …

This is incredibly dumb. If I want to know what my child’s IQ why can’t I just send her to get tested? This is as stupid as the various genetic tests for “#depression” when I can diagnose depression in a 7 question inventory.

You can't do that before the kid is born (nor for some time after that)

For that purpose—if you just build a classifier of a linear regression of your parents’ IQ and income you prolly reliably beat that polygenetic test. This is #theranos nonsense.

Sure. But what do you think will be the variance for you to select out of a bunch of zygotes from the same parents? You can avoid dumb siblings I suppose in the best case scenario.

That seems like a very desirable scenario.