Part 2 of casts that can't be tweets

Intelligence is largely determined by genetics

& generally higher IQ = more productive member of society

Which leads to the implication that state-subsidized egg/sperm/embryo creation + sequencing/ranking

Should absolutely be done

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What complicates this is IQ is a somewhat poor scoring metric of intelligence. There are many forms, such as EQ, and optimizing for one via eugenics would lead to the erosion of others. We would need significantly better metrics than our current approach for this to be viable.

BDFL of Quilibrium, Eng @ Farcaster, ex-Coinbase, always opinionated, never hydrated

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Interestingly, this was kind of how Brave New World perceived it too — in that there was selection of traits for distinct castes. I don’t think parents doing their own gene selection process is inherently bad — it essentially happens when selecting a partner in the first place

I think the way to solve for this is to allow for different parents to optimize for different traits

Lebron makes tall kids, Elon makes aspy-smart ones etc