Imagine a drug which, with no side effects, boosts IQ 10 points. Should it be a) Banned b) Sold c) Made freely available on NHS d) Put in the public water supply? Now, instead of a drug, ask analogous questions of an IQ-boosting gene which could be inserted in zygote genomes.
b), to incentivize development of even better nootropics in the future.
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Surely c) would also achieve the same effect without the inequality. Pharma companies don’t give drugs to the NHS for free you know.
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No, but we Americans subsidize the drug development costs for almost everything you guys in Britain benefit from....
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This view, while it sounds reasonable enough, was precisely the one which saw
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This is the correct answer.
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Probably d) so that we can reap the massive benefits of *everyone* being more intelligent... it would probably have a huge effect. Should everyone have the gene edit done? For some reason, it doesn't seem as obvious, though it should be the same answer all else equal...
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Obviously
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You need smart people to develop them. So c) would be better, wouldn't it? If 1 million people pay $1000 that would be an incentive. But if the Government pays $300 for 60 million people, wouldn't that be a higher incentive?
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So that only the rich can have it, and dig the socioeconomic canyon even deeper, wider, and more unbridgeable.
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Yes, which is exactly why only the greedy rich have electricity, washing machines, refrigerators, cars, and television. Oh wait...
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