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I was talking about this with a friend a few weeks ago, and my conclusion is that this is going to be like giving a bunch of 12 year olds shotguns: beautiful an
by hyperion2010 11y ago
I was talking about this with a friend a few weeks ago, and my conclusion is that this is going to be like giving a bunch of 12 year olds shotguns: beautiful and messy.
We can talk about 'rules' all we want here in the west but there is no way you are going to be able to regulate this stuff and trying to ban the ingredients is just going to lead to people buying it from less reputable sources that have impurities so you will end up with spliced up babies that have a bunch of additional defects instead of just spliced up babies.
We can try to explain to our fellow citizens that there is in fact no such thing as an intelligence gene, but that won't stop them from wanting it and certainly won't stop the snake oil salesmen from selling it. We've never been here before and we learn by trial and error, just like evolution.
- svachalek 11y agoThere are genes associated with intelligence, they are what makes humans so much more dangerous than any other creature on earth, and octopi so much more interesting than fish. More to your point, there are some intelligence genes that some people have and other people don't. They don't solely determine IQ, it's a complex interaction of environment, diet, education, personality, etc., but that's not to say they don't exist.
- joaq 11y agoSo what if someone's more intelligent? There was an experiment showing that super smart people don't have much of an advantage over smart people. Past a certain point it doesn't matter. Most other human attributes that we perceive as desirable like height have their downsides (every extra centimeter takes 3 months away from your life plus many other health problems). I see the opportunity more along the lines of removing health problems such as schizophrenia, etc.
- hyperion2010 11y agohttp://www.nature.com/mp/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/mp2014105a.html http://www.nature.com/mp/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/mp201410...
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