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I think the pushback is more about adopting a passive predictive approach than an interventionist approach, and about the stigma that genetic-based approaches c
by derbOac 4y ago
I think the pushback is more about adopting a passive predictive approach than an interventionist approach, and about the stigma that genetic-based approaches create when they don't predict beyond past behavior very well.
It's unclear what using genes to predict educational outcomes adds beyond just trying to provide the best possible opportunities over and over again. It doesn't really matter if it's genes or some fixed environmental history.
- zozbot234 4y agoWell, once you know which genes are causal for which adverse social outcomes, you could use CRISPR to address the problem. Unfortunately, genome-wide association studies are famous for yielding poor results wrt. these things. So a good default guess is that the effect of various social, institutional, cultural etc. factors is being misidentified as primarily genetic.
- kodah 4y agoPretty sure that's called Eugenics my guy. Let's not do that.
- MockObject 4y agoIt's probably as inevitable as every other technological advance that some warned us to avoid. Even if banned in some Western countries, I don't see every advanced nation willingly cooperating.
- Turing_Machine 4y agoHow about fixing stuff like hemophilia or sickle cell? "Eugenics" or nah?
- mrguyorama 4y agoUnless you provide genetic modification services 110% free to everyone and anyone regardless of literally anything, gene modification inevitably will result in an underclass that can't afford it.
- Turing_Machine 4y agoYou've heard of "Medicaid"? Also, that didn't actually answer my question. Is using CRISPR (or similar) to fix hemophilia "eugenics" or not?
- polski-g 4y agoAlmost everyone on the planet supports eugenics: "You're probably a eugenicist" https://dissentient.substack.com/p/eugenicist https://dissentient.substack.com/p/eugenicist