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[–] 25 points 1 week ago (1 child)

People would also recommend not releasing demons from the nether realm, but if you give them the Necronomicon suddenly it's klaatu this, nicto that. Some knowledge is just cursed.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    This seems kinda facile to me. Of course we act on the information when given it, that's why we say we don't want to test for it? If I thought I (and others like me) wouldn't act on the knowledge, I wouldn't care whether we tested for those traits or not?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    It's click bait, you're using rational critical thinking and that's overrated here.

    I would rather have a social network where there's no click bait but until it happens I won't spend more than 2 seconds thinking about what the headline means vs what it implies.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Narcissistic sociopaths have a massively negative influence on society. While it may be a slippery slope, if there was a way to just excise that trait and prevent anything else from being considered, I'd be 100% in.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    I did a quick search since testing IVF embryos for high intelligence potential sounded really bogus to me. Apparently it can be marginally predicted for a only couple of IQ points, and comes with the added bonus of potential for selecting for other detrimental effects.

    Sounds like the worst possible thing to do.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    I'm sure if given a gun more people would act on that too

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    We try so hard to be noble beasts.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    If it would just lead to a world of less developmentally delayed people that would be a good thing, but the reality is we are going to end up with Gattaca.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 week ago

    You know what? Fuck it. It feels like we have all the dystopia of a cyberpunk reality without any of the cool shit. Fuckin' might as well make some super babies. What's the worst that can happen? Inequality unprecedented in all of human history? We already have that. Make some juiced up baby Einstein mofos. Maybe one of them can figure out how to unfuck everything.

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