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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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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

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.

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11,000 twin study is probably the best I've seen on genetics <> intelligence

https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1408777111

Are there any quantitive data on the relative strengths of both these relationships ? Would be super interesting in reading

Intelligence being largely determined by genetics is very clear but I don’t want any government involvement in it

Also I wonder if that’s why Elon is having so many babies

Gattica is often cited as an example of this going wrong, and I do think gov control of this stuff is maybe icky.

That said, the part that often gets missed from Gattica is that the parents actively decided *not* to sequence for genetics, knowingly disadvantaging their son.