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Which has nothing to do with its validity. (And I don't necessarily agree with its conclusions myself.)
by michael_storm 12y ago
Which has nothing to do with its validity. (And I don't necessarily agree with its conclusions myself.)
- mturmon 12y agoBut at this point, it's kind of like coming to a discussion of a perpetual motion machine "with an open mind".
- BugBrother 12y agoI always found the eugenics arguments to be irrelevant, because parents will probably do design babies before accumulation of mutations can have a big impact. There is 20-35 years/generation and already now, there is some selection of embryos to avoid disease. So routine fixing of gene "flaws" will be standard in just a few generations, since most everyone want intelligent children. And yes, there will be large and complex social effects, probably partly negative. But the "Idiocracy" scenario seems unlikely.
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