Hollywood eugenics and actual eugenics
I oppose coercive eugenic policies, so don't try to quote mine my blunt discussion as support for such policies. Hollywood has a new anti-eugenics movie out, called The Thinning. There's…
I oppose coercive eugenic policies, so don't try to quote mine my blunt discussion as support for such policies. Hollywood has a new anti-eugenics movie out, called The Thinning. There's…
Note that perhaps there should be doubt quotation marks around human in the title. Would humans with a 1,000 SD increase in (general) cognitive ability (CA) really be human? Steve…
Reading up on the huge animal breeding literature gives a useful background to one's thinking about what selection on humans will do in the future (embryo selection and direct editing…
From reddit http://www.reddit.com/r/genetics/comments/1z1tli/design_your_own_baby_a_genetic_ethics_dilemma/cfqrlol Zorander22 writes: 1) I would wager a guess that most people are capable of far more than they're current employment situations might indicate. The idea that machines…
From Reddit. - Two reasons. 1) Technological unemployment. This is going fast right now. Already a large part of the population is useless and can only leech on society economically.…
Interesting small book that casts light on the use of sterilizations in nordic countries. It shows quite clearly that eugenics has it origin in collectivist and socialist thinking and was…
Found here: http://whatwemaybe.org/ http://whatwemaybe.org/txt/txt0000/glad.john.2006.future_human_evolution.book.full.003k.en.pdf The homepage is really weird, but the book turned out to be... pretty good. At first I was not impressed, especially because he went into insufficient…
Becus this is the next book that i am reeding. Enjoy! Richard Lynn - Eugenics <- scanned and OCR'd PDF, somwat large (14 MB)
"Most importantly, Galton and all other eugenicists prior to the 1970s made the fundamental error of believing that heredity is a means by which nature reproduces organisms. Today we know…