In the prog view, fertility should be decoupled from resources, and all survive. So, the only legitimate selection is differential fertility
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(cont.) Is selection for maximum fertility really what we want in the long term? Democracy becomes a breeding race
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@HbdNrx no, that doesn't seem smart at all. =/ plus dysgenic effects. otoh, genetic engineering will be a game changer...@Outsideness1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
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@hbdchick@Outsideness I'm not optimistic about human genetic engineering happening to any significant degree in the next 100+ years2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
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@Outsideness@hbdchick biology and genetics are so complicated, lots of unintended consequences possible. editing genome is not going to be2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Outsideness@hbdchick even with that, only a tiny percentage of people would do it, well under 1%. getting eggs is nontrivial1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@Outsideness@hbdchick not to mention that in the case of intelligence embryo selection probably won't get you very far because so manygenes1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
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@Outsideness@hbdchick infotech/big data will help, for sure. and to be fair even human genome sequencing seemed enormous task 20 yrs ago1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Outsideness@hbdchick ...on the other hand, I'm not sure Moore's Law has much time left in it.0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
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