these predictions by well-known brain genious scott alexander give an amazing insight into how silicon valley technofascists think the world works. of note: you will be able to scan your baby's genome for "criminality".http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/02/15/five-more-years/ …
Yeah, notice I said "treated as" rather than "actually is". I don't expect even good polygenic scores as of 2023 to be more than mildly correlated in a scientifically-interesting but practically-useless way.
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The problem is everyone is an idiot about this kind of stuff. See the BBC article linked above, where a couple of criminals have been set free on the grounds that they were found to have some genes mildly associated with criminality (!!!???!!!)
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