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If we were serious about finding the next Einstein we would be attempting to maximize the pairing of individuals who could produce such a person. This may somed
by matte_black 8y ago
If we were serious about finding the next Einstein we would be attempting to maximize the pairing of individuals who could produce such a person. This may someday be feasible, as genetic testing and online dating begin to intersect, but the time is not yet.
- lalos 8y agoPlease watch Gattaca, very relevant to your comment.
- dayofthedaleks 8y agoSo... the Bene Gesserit breeding program to produce the Kwizatz Haderach, then.
- magduf 8y agoAFAIK, Einstein was not the product of a pair of super-geniuses. It doesn't work that way. Of course, you're not likely to get an Einstein if a bunch of uneducated idiots breed either, but most really remarkable people like that come from pretty "normal" parents, though admittedly usually from family backgrounds that are at least middle-class, and not impoverished, and where they had good opportunities and education. If you want to increase your chances of making more Einsteins, there's two things you have to do as a society: 1) minimize poverty, illiteracy, poor education, etc., and 2) increase the birthrate (while making sure as many of those kids as possible grow up in economically and emotionally stable homes). You're not going to get Einsteins from a bunch of dirt-poor subsistence farmers, nor from a tiny cabal of wealthy people.