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The modern world looks on with increasing horror: My God, you are dead, and the eugenicists were right.
by carsongross 10y ago
The modern world looks on with increasing horror:
My God, you are dead, and the eugenicists were right.
- AstralStorm 10y agoNot necessarily. Selective breeding and genetic manipulation might not be the best of things. It may be better to have a bunch of people who love to sweep floors rather than 100% super intelligent. Plus we need different perspectives. To an extent, their should be variance in many things. Sometimes a janitor solved the problem, by turning the genius thinking around.
- projektir 10y agoThere's nothing better about designating a class of people to sweep floors. The loss of power and agency is the problem.
- marchenko 10y agoNature certainly seems to be clobbering nurture as of late, if the recent spate of behavioural genetics research is correct. Parenting, deliberate practice, 'grit' - all seem to be superseded or confounded by genetics. Although it's probably irrational of me, I find this somewhat disheartening - as more of human behaviour is rationalised, the Calvinist picture that emerges is ... less interesting. A very weak and nerdy analogy would be that of an RPG where the dice rolls on the character creation screen led almost directly to the final dungeon. The prospect of more elaborate dice-rolling with the advent of genetic engineering does not make the game that much more appealing.