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Babies that can run, jump, faster and higher, and live longer, and are generally smarter and just more advanced evolved.. It's like some breeds of dogs/monkeys
by gremlinsinc 10y ago
Babies that can run, jump, faster and higher, and live longer, and are generally smarter and just more advanced evolved.. It's like some breeds of dogs/monkeys are smarter than others. So will the 'smart' ones think they are better than all the rest of us.
- oldmanjay 10y agoI have a silly question - if, as observation allows, some existing people are objectively better than others at things we can measure reliably, what is the ethical problem?
- jlebrech 10y agothere's probably a social justice reason it's a "bad" thing,
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- iLoch 10y agoThey will be. :) Nothing wrong with that, it's just evolution.
- throwwit 10y agoThe running example reminds me of https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/the-running-blog/2013/aug/30/dean-karnazes-man-run-forever https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/the-running-blog/20...
- pbhjpbhj 10y ago>and just more advanced evolved // Except not evolved at all, just genetically engineered by humans. Unless evolved now means semi-intelligently designed by someone with half the necessary information?
- delecti 10y agoNatural Selection is normally the only means by which evolution occurs, but evolution itself is merely "descent with modification", which this would qualify as. We're really just jump-starting the mutation process, and once that part is done, whether those designer babies go on to have children of their own will come down to natural selection. [1] http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/0_0_0/evo_02 http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/0_0_0/evo_0...