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Human society has already progressed beyond the usefulness of laissez-faire evolution as evidenced by obvious dysgenic trends. If you think about it, it makes s
by opportune 9y ago
Human society has already progressed beyond the usefulness of laissez-faire evolution as evidenced by obvious dysgenic trends. If you think about it, it makes sense: society and technology are now highly influential and dynamic over timespans that are barely a blip when it comes to evolution. There's also the fact that withholding this technology from people would effectively constitute eugenics, and in liberal democracies we tend to value peoples' individual rights in these situations.
Also humans are currently evolving to need technology to give birth due to the use of C-sections anyway [0].
I don't think it matters in the long term as you seem to believe. Within a few hundred years we'll probably have widespread genetic engineering or at least manual selection of traits. So in the short term this technology will help make people happy, and in the medium term the evolutionary effects on the human gene pool will be irrelevant.
[0] http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-38210837 http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-38210837
- worldsayshi 9y agoAlso in the future technology should become more self contained. Factories for producing any other factories should become widespread enough for technological supply chains to be ubiquitous. Let's hope that we can contain the environmental footprint as well. Ecological collapse would be the true interruption/hiccup in all this.
- Lionsion 9y ago> Also in the future technology should become more self contained. Factories for producing any other factories should become widespread enough for technological supply chains to be ubiquitous Isn't this a variation on the idea that the internet would render censorship obsolete and ineffective?