Formal state-based eugenics programs weren't great, but the informal state-based dysgenics programs that replaced them are worse.
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Replying to @RealEnverHoxha @Outsideness
Look, if you're risk-averse, the smartest thing to do in USA is to be 5% genetically worse than average, not 5% better (as before). And we all know how beauty contest games go. Here, good science is times more harmful than broad aesthetic heuristics.
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Replying to @chernobylski @Outsideness
Oh boy do I love calculating people's genetic "value" by percentile
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Replying to @RealEnverHoxha @chernobylski
That's why it's better left to decentralized sifting mechanisms.
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Replying to @Outsideness @chernobylski
Lmao, i do love the expectation that not only will the state do a better job at this than the market and civil society, but that the state will decentralize decision making about it too! And they call us commies utopians!
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Replying to @RealEnverHoxha @chernobylski
"... i do love the expectation that not only will the state do a better job at this than the market and civil society ..." -- My assumption is precisely the opposite.
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... A principal function of the contemporary state is to subvert decentralized eugenic processes.
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