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Some say China is working on this issue with selective breeding etc. You could at increasing IQ in very poor countries where lack of basic micronutrients is ca
by aaron695 10y ago
Some say China is working on this issue with selective breeding etc.
You could at increasing IQ in very poor countries where lack of basic micronutrients is causing IQ issues.
But I think better group intelligence, using current intelligence in poor countries better, AI, productivity increase with better tools currently makes much more sense.
- falsestprophet 10y agoIs there large scale government directed selective breeding in China?
- deciplex 10y agoNo, but some, like aaron695, say there is.
- daveguy 10y agoI think he might be referring to this 2013 article: http://www.vice.com/read/chinas-taking-over-the-world-with-a-massive-genetic-engineering-program http://www.vice.com/read/chinas-taking-over-the-world-with-a... Selective breeding in a sense of "selecting the zygote" for ideal outcome. Aka designer babies. This was referred to as "selective breeding" in the press when it came out. A misnomer in that selective breeding has meant selective pairing of parents for at least a century before this article was written. Note: this is also a company in China, not "China" although the distinction is sometimes muddled they certainly aren't regulating it like it has been in the West. Also, with the only one child policy that was recently lifted it is easy to confuse oppressive breeding requirements in China.