Quote (Skinned @ Aug 7 2017 12:20pm)
I'm afraid it would be used in racial ways to retard the human race by denying the one thing that promotes life on earth which is diversity of genetics and the ability to adapt by taking on the best traits of the best mates.
I think that its simultaneously both underestimating our potential to suggest that nature's diversity is necessarily advantageous over intelligent design while overoptimistic to suggest we'll develop enough genetic engineering in a fast enough timespan to create any of those classical sci fi tropes of gattaca-esque class stratification. Natural forces, in genetics like economics, provide a baseline of what can work when left to its own devices, but an intelligently engineered system eventually will outperform it due to the far faster rate of innovation. Evolution adapts through naturally selection, but design adapts through creativity, and human timescales are shorter than ecological timescales, but not
so fast that we'll be creating a race of flying bulletproof 400 lb hyperintelligent ubermensch any time soon. We'll probably just learn to select from existing traits long before we generate new ones, but we
will grasp that, and perhaps by the time we do, eugenics can be completely divorced from tribalism.