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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: jttmab who wrote (171803)10/3/2005 7:39:33 PM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
<I'm not inclined to think of the individual act of DNA twiddling to be ethically wrong, but it'll make an interesting society, wealthy people will be in a better position to twiddle. Poor people will be stuck with what they got.>

That's pretty much what happens now. Women select DNA from that on offer and that goes on to be the next generation. Wealthy people have wider choices, other things being equal.

Whether women do it by ticking a menu before conceiving from a DNA chart and somebody clips and unclips DNA, or she scavenges around in the swarm of males on offer looking for a decent bundle of DNA, the outcome is much the same. But it's less efficient in the manual method.

I'm sure women will select some bloke, then go through his DNA saying to "Unplug that and put in this". They will universally want some intelligence plugged in. If we take them at their word and the Flynn Effect and the fact that humans are smarter than chimps is a good guide that they have been wanting intelligence for a longgggg time. It's not all they want, but other things being equal, they'll grab it.

Intelligence testers got around the cultural bias issues in testing decades ago. Belts and braces questions aren't messing testing up these days.

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