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Imagine how many brad pitt babies

• atleastoptimal 3y ago
  Imagine being one of the few natural born kids starting school in 2046. Half your class is named Chris because they are literally the clones of Chris Pratt/Pine/Hemsworth/Evans. It may seem impressive, but they really are only the generic bargain bin option for genetic engineering by then. The other half, the richer kids, are hyperintelligent chimeras of every most famous, intelligent, world class athlete, celebrity and model from the early 21st century mixed into a Select Blend. On your first day, the class watches Gattaca, and your teacher, GPT-12, discusses how many things the movie got wrong and how genetic discrimination is not bad at all.
  • bsaul 3y ago
    I keep talking to people about that scenario, of basically adopting the reproductive model of racing horses for humans, but it seems that nobody realizes how far we’ve already gone in that direction.
    • samtho 3y ago
      There was an attempt to blatantly push eugenics via a sperm bank[0], and it was active until 1999. Nowadays they are just more discreet about it. [0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repository_for_Germinal_Choice https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repository_for_Germinal_Choi...
  • xvilka 3y ago
    There would be likely a law to keep the necessary genetic diversity for species survival, to avoid exact clones or similar copies.