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In the long term we can correct all genetic faults with technology. Natural selection is a very crude tool. What we have more of an issue is smart people are n
by danieltillett 9y ago
In the long term we can correct all genetic faults with technology. Natural selection is a very crude tool.
What we have more of an issue is smart people are not having children, or not having as many as they can. The only resource in short supply on the planet is smart people.
- 2snakes 9y agoBut is intelligence a lethal mutation? Big picture perspective, nuclear arms and environmental degradation...
- danieltillett 9y agoAll of those things are a sign we need more, not less intelligence. Given the current selective pressure against high intelligence it is not too wrong to say it is lethal genetic trait.
- echlebek 9y agoThe Kurt Vonnegut novel "Galapagos" is about how natural selection selected against intelligence, and the resulting evolution of humans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gal%C3%A1pagos_(novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gal%C3%A1pagos_(novel)