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Seems like this is only going to help attract less intelligent women, because the smart ones will know their offspring won’t be getting genetics for height with

Seems like this is only going to help attract less intelligent women, because the smart ones will know their offspring won’t be getting genetics for height with someone who is artificially tall. Full speed ahead toward idiocracy.

thrown_22 4y ago
Does the same apply to artificial breasts?
softcactus 4y ago
How would they know? Are you divulging the fact that your height is the result of a procedure on the first date? Also are we assuming that women prefer tall men because they want tall children, not because tallness is just an attractive trait? Why would women choose to engage in casual sex with a tall man if their whole goal is to have tall children? Also how does this lead towards idiocracy? If the less intelligent women are sleeping with tech workers, and more intelligent women are sleeping with naturally tall men, then wouldn't we see the offspring of the tech bros + less intelligent women have average intelligence, while the smarter women are having taller, smarter children? There are so many assumptions being made here. I want to know what the conditions in this hypothetical world are. It sounds fascinating.
- Psychlist 4y ago
  That favours wealth over intelligence, or vice versa. So it's a value judgement - are we better off with more children to wealthy parents or to tall parents?
  - softcactus 4y ago
    I was making the underlying assumption that wealth has some correlation with intelligence (for someone who made money in tech at least) Tech bros need money to get height gainz -> must pass tech interviews/bring a product to market -> intelligence But also there is probably a correlation between height and wealth as well. Either way I don't think that it's anyone's place to determine who should reproduce.
filoleg 4y ago
They might get lucky with that one. A good number of children are taller than both of their parents. I've seen plenty of such examples irl (outside of my own family). Not by much, maybe an inch or two (exceptions exist though). I am taller than my taller parent (dad) by an inch. My dad is taller than his dad (the taller parent) by about 3 inches. Given that such a surgery adds up to 3 inches in height, things could work out just fine. It isn't like this surgery tranforms 5'1 people into 6'1 people.

thrown_22 4y ago

Does the same apply to artificial breasts?

softcactus 4y ago

How would they know? Are you divulging the fact that your height is the result of a procedure on the first date? Also are we assuming that women prefer tall men because they want tall children, not because tallness is just an attractive trait? Why would women choose to engage in casual sex with a tall man if their whole goal is to have tall children? Also how does this lead towards idiocracy? If the less intelligent women are sleeping with tech workers, and more intelligent women are sleeping with naturally tall men, then wouldn't we see the offspring of the tech bros + less intelligent women have average intelligence, while the smarter women are having taller, smarter children? There are so many assumptions being made here. I want to know what the conditions in this hypothetical world are. It sounds fascinating.

Psychlist 4y ago
That favours wealth over intelligence, or vice versa. So it's a value judgement - are we better off with more children to wealthy parents or to tall parents?
- softcactus 4y ago
  I was making the underlying assumption that wealth has some correlation with intelligence (for someone who made money in tech at least) Tech bros need money to get height gainz -> must pass tech interviews/bring a product to market -> intelligence But also there is probably a correlation between height and wealth as well. Either way I don't think that it's anyone's place to determine who should reproduce.

filoleg 4y ago

They might get lucky with that one. A good number of children are taller than both of their parents. I've seen plenty of such examples irl (outside of my own family). Not by much, maybe an inch or two (exceptions exist though). I am taller than my taller parent (dad) by an inch. My dad is taller than his dad (the taller parent) by about 3 inches. Given that such a surgery adds up to 3 inches in height, things could work out just fine. It isn't like this surgery tranforms 5'1 people into 6'1 people.