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We have to ensure that people
are meeting their potential.
And exceeding it?
No one exceeds his potential.
lf he did?
lt simply means that we didn’t accurately gauge his potential in the first place
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IQ is such a messy bunch of environment-vs-heredity factors for an arbitrary number that measures successful integration into western hegemony that it’s not likely there’d be any reliable or consistent ways to increase it in a falsifiable way in an embryo besides “make sure parents have high IQs,” and even then, kind of dubious.
Now, if techbros wanted to breed more ruthlessly efficient sociopaths I’m sure enough Torment Nexus tinkering could screen away frontal lobe and mirror neuron functionality.
“Well, considering the amount of money you’ve given us to provide this ‘service’, it’s safe to say you don’t need to worry about your child having an excessive IQ… In particular, I’d say there is about 66% chance of it being between 85 and 115.”Sorry kid, your parents didn’t pass the IQ test.
BEEP BEEP BEEPI wish all eugenicists a safe trip to the deepest circle of hell
This whole world and their damn fetish for eugenics.
At this point, maybe we should include that it’s more than just about egalitarianism but I sincerely think that even if some people are “inferior” society should just let us be “inferior” in peace.
Eugenics as a Service.
Among the firm’s senior staff is the academic Jonathan Anomaly, who has caused controversy after defending what he describes as “liberal eugenics”.
The guy defending eugenics goes by “Mr. Anomaly”? Why do these stories always feature silly details like that
nominative determinism
probably even more pathetic, it is either his working name or he legally changed it for additional notoriety hype
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don’t make it sound cool like that when they’re basically burning money to select embryos with large foreheads
Wow… caliper technology really has progressed quite a ways hasn’t it?
good quote OP, Gattaca is now 27 years old but it is still worth watching
I’ve ran into way too many techbro dipshits in the past that wanted to build the Torment Nexus from Gattaca. I’m not kidding. They thought the society was great as it was.
The society in gattaca was very bad but from my hazy decade plus old memory of it the MC’s specific circumstance was like the worst possible example of why. Wasn’t he a guy with a congenital heart problem trying to get picked for a one-man mission to Jupiter?
I too am hazy about a move I haven’t watched in 10+years.
Did he have a heart problem or did his genes make it more statistically likely to have/develop a heart problem?
(The internet seems to think that its the gene stastics things and not actually having been diagnosed with a heart defect.)
He had the heart problem
Wasn’t he a guy with a congenital heart problem trying to get picked for a one-man mission to Jupiter?
He sure was. He didn’t fight the system; he just wanted to get his life achievement (while potentially endangering that mission after blast-off).
it’s actually pretty reasonable to screen astronauts for heart defects.
I’ll admit to thinking the society depicted was actually very cool when I first watched it and got in an argument with a friend about it. Media literacy is hard when you’re young okay
I understand.
The people I argued with about it were in their thirties and were well educated so they don’t get a pass.
honestly i almost respect the grift, because there’s literally no way of getting reliable results and that’s a lot of money to charge gullible race realists
: “What if you could identify your baby’s IQ and abort it if it’s below Mensa levels?”
WHAT IF I COULD JUST AFFORD TO HAVE MY CHILD AND TAKE IT TO A DOCTOR???IQ is just a measurement of how well integrated an individual is to western hegemony.
It’s seen as a D&D style stat by calipers enjoyers because of course it is.
Gattaca?
