Just kidding, with the rise of A.I., super-intelligence will be a useless trait. I'm going to engineer my kids to be great at writing viral tweets.
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You can’t genetically engineer guile or wit, you can only foment it. Also, fuck that unless we’re talking about helping with genetic-related diseases, designer baby shit is unethical.
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I just want to design my baby to have better hair than me.
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Fair, your hair is not as good as it could be
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But that seems petty, and extreme. Just get a Japanese perm, and have smooth hair forever
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Why not just genetically engineer my kid to have Japanese-style hair so they can get any hairstyle they want from competent Japanese stylists?
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... Shit, outfoxed again
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Never go up against a Sicilian when death is on the line!
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It’s pretty unlikely that in the near or even in a century we will understand the genetic components of intelligence well enough to use CRISPR to smarten up our kids. We can’t even treat genetic diseases that we know are caused by a single defective protein yet (Huntington’s),
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Yes, it was a joke... :-)
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I wonder what the correlation is with that 19% and the top 19% of the population by wealth. This is going to be one of the major issues of the 21st century other than AI.
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Maybe because a majority of Americans realize that •they• won’t be able to afford it?
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That number will increase a lot over the next few years.
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Just for fun it should be called getting genes tailored.
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Mind you, we don't really have the faintest clue how to do that AFAIK.
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Gattacaaaaa!
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They're going to grow up to be p-hackers. Just you wait and see.
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