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Gross, but I’m not shocked. IVF and prenatal genetics screening is big business, it was really only a matter of time until someone tried pulling this.
My hope is that someone squashes this and we keep screening limited to risks for severe developmental disorders (which, even still, is at least a little ethically problematic) and conditions that lower the probability of the pregnancy coming to term. But we’ll see - there’s gold in dem der embryos.
oh great, commercial eugenics
Better than traditional genocidal eugenics.
A depressingly low bar. Also, [Citation Needed]
I’m not so sure about that. If they are able to make it generally affordable, they could make quite the impact trough corruption or just keeping things quiet
That’s not how IQ works you idiots.
Wait. Who’s the idiots? The ones selling the service, the ones falling for the service, or the embryos that they decide to have low IQ?
I’d say the first two, and if the parents are responsible for the education of the kid, all three.
I’d say number 2. The people selling the service are scammers, but probably not dumb. Or maybe thet are Idk.
If I only have about fifty embryos, can I pay $50k to have them scanned now and have another 50 embryo scans left on my account or do I have to have all of them on hand immediately?
I would definitely hate to be burdened with an IQ. Such a terrible thing to be born with
Only if burdened with emotional intermittence, as well.
GATTICA! GATTICA! GATTICA!
Scott Alexander pokes his head up out of the astroturf and whispers, “It’s showtime.”
GATTACATS would be the most cursed musical possible and every day I give thanks that we live in a world where it doesn’t exist.
Won’t one crucial difference be that Gattaca’s genetic selection actually worked? This will be a techbro “move fast and break things” con job.
Yet another dystopian sci-fi that Silicon Valley is trying to turn into a business plan.
If you’re stupid enough to fall for this they euthanise the foetus.
let’s not
