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Having neighbours with significantly lower IQ is not something that anyone wants, so if the procedure works rich people would be most interested to apply it to
by chr1 8y ago
Having neighbours with significantly lower IQ is not something that anyone wants, so if the procedure works rich people would be most interested to apply it to everyone.
But until a working method is found and proven safe, no rich people will be going out of thier way to become test subjects. In fact it is more likely that poor people will be paid for testing improvements on their children.
- michaelt 8y agoIf nobody wants dumb neighbours, shouldn't public education be really superb?
- logicchains 8y agoYou can't (yet) buy intelligence.
- chr1 8y agoThis is an interesting argument, and it shows that although the public version won't be the absolute best, society will invest significant amount of resources into it. Considering that unlike education it is one time investment, doesn't need to be applied to all people at once†, naturally propagates through intermarriage, i think it is safe to assume that split of humankind into two species: smart and rich, poor and normal is a very unlikely event. † it is actually very important to have a large number of unmodified people for several generations for extra safety
- chillacy 8y agoIt’s going to be an amazing world briefly when poor people are super smart and resistant to measles when rich kids aren’t.