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We should begin to harvest the eggs and sperm (or zygotes) of the most intelligent and productive people on the planet, and then pay people to bring those child
by IronRanger 6y ago
We should begin to harvest the eggs and sperm (or zygotes) of the most intelligent and productive people on the planet, and then pay people to bring those children to term and raise them. It would eliminate poverty.
- google234123 6y agoGood lucking a significant number of people to actually brith and raise these children - even for a decent income.
- IronRanger 6y agoFailing the implantation of zygotes, we could just allow a free market for sperm. Why shouldn't women or couples be able to pay $10,000 for the DNA of men like Elon Musk?
- google234123 6y agoThis already exists
- sokoloff 6y agoI also have doubts that people who did this for an income are likely to raise them in a way that results in strongly productive adults, even after accounting for some amount of regression to the mean.
- blackcats 6y agoGenes is less than 50% for intelligence.
- OisinMoran 6y agoThere's a book called The Genius Factory about a failed attempt at this.
- dagw 6y agoGoogle "The Nobel prize sperm bank". Someone had already tried.
- jointpdf 6y agoNice try, squid robot from The Matrix. "Harvesting" humans (or human ingredients) is for dystopias.