Gene editing is the surest path to dystopia that I can currently imagine. And I don’t see any way to avoid the inevitable arms race. If North Korea is engineeri

Gene editing is the surest path to dystopia that I can currently imagine. And I don’t see any way to avoid the inevitable arms race. If North Korea is engineering super intelligent kids it is almost certain that South Korea and/or China will do the same. Then it will just cascade from there. Engineered vs not engineered could easily become the new class system where the rich-ish are able to produce “better” children and exponentially widen the gap. Could also lose all semblance of uniqueness. Want your child to be a redhead with a 170 IQ? Okay, pay enough and it’s yours. So I think the real question is not how far SHOULD we go, but instead how far WILL we go. And how quickly will we go there.