Re: Clear up
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The inherited disease type arguments are kind of irrelevent in terms of this thought experiment. Even without eugenics we will (or could) get to the stage of being able to avoid all of them.
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How so?
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We will (or could) get to the stage of understanding genetics well enough so that we filter out, or correct for, any inherited disease.
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But their point is that these diseases are closely tied to the increased intelligence because of the effect on the brain.
Even so, we're a looooong way from knowing genetics that well.
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Its sort of shocking what we don't know about human developmental biology. I mean, to be sure I am receiving a watered-down version of it in school, but the number of times our embryology professors use the phrase 'this is not known' or 'the mechanism is unclear' FAR outnumbers the times it is clearly elucidated. And my profs are smart guys!
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