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#823 - Dr Jonathan Anomaly - Is It Ethical To Hand-Pick Your Child’s Genes?

2024/8/10
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Chris Willx：探讨了人们对智商讨论的反感，以及基因选择技术带来的伦理和社会问题，并对未来人口结构变化和社会发展趋势进行了预测。 Jonathan Anomaly：详细阐述了智商测试的可靠性和局限性，以及基因选择技术在提高后代智力和健康方面的潜力和风险。他分析了治疗与增强的区别，并讨论了基因突变积累、社会公平、道德增强等问题，并对未来基因选择技术的普及和社会影响进行了预测。

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The resistance to discussions about IQ stems from its misuse in the past to justify discriminatory policies like restrictive immigration. While IQ tests were initially biased, they have evolved to become relatively reliable measures of cognitive ability. However, the stigma associated with IQ persists due to concerns about its potential misuse for justifying social hierarchies and discriminatory practices.
  • Resistance to IQ discussions arose post-World War II due to past misuse for discriminatory policies.
  • Hitler banned IQ tests after finding Jews consistently scored higher than Germans.
  • IQ tests have become more reliable over time, but concerns about misuse persist.

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Dr Jonathan Anomaly is a philosopher, professor and an author.

The concept of hand-selecting your baby’s traits has been an idea since the dawn of genetic science. This technology is now available. But just how ethical is it to shape your child’s destiny, and what unseen problems might a world with this science be facing?

Expect to learn why so many people dislike any discussions about IQ, what the moral challenges of embryo selection are, why genetic selection is going to be the biggest global talking point over the next decade, whether you are able to fix evolutionary mismatch with embryo selection, Jonny’s prediction for the future of multiculturalism and much more...

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