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Anthony William Sloman
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On Friday, July 14, 2023 at 2:19:43â¯AM UTC+10, R Souls wrote:
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There\'s nothing wrong with thinking about how the human race could be improved by a bit of selective breeding. It\'s just that it happens to be a totally impractical idea because all the kinds of behaviors that the eugenics lobby wants to improve are complex traits.
\"Our findings are consistent with genome-wide explorations on almost any complex trait; a single gene or small group of genes does not directly influence behavior. Rather, thousands of genetic variants of very small effects and constellations of genes interact with each other and the environment to influence behavior, indirectly.\"
There are lots of different ways of being superior in the kinds of ways that Cursitor Doom wants to encourage. The problem is that encouraging one way of being superior will probably interfere with lots of other ways of being superior and the effort will have no perceptible effect, except to make the population marginally less genetically diverse, which isn\'t a good idea.
The basic problem is that righties think that they are superior, and figure that making the population look more like them would make it better. This isn\'t eugenics. It\'s conceit.
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Bil Sloman, Sydney
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There\'s nothing wrong with thinking about how the human race could be improved by a bit of selective breeding. It\'s just that it happens to be a totally impractical idea because all the kinds of behaviors that the eugenics lobby wants to improve are complex traits.
\"Our findings are consistent with genome-wide explorations on almost any complex trait; a single gene or small group of genes does not directly influence behavior. Rather, thousands of genetic variants of very small effects and constellations of genes interact with each other and the environment to influence behavior, indirectly.\"
There are lots of different ways of being superior in the kinds of ways that Cursitor Doom wants to encourage. The problem is that encouraging one way of being superior will probably interfere with lots of other ways of being superior and the effort will have no perceptible effect, except to make the population marginally less genetically diverse, which isn\'t a good idea.
The basic problem is that righties think that they are superior, and figure that making the population look more like them would make it better. This isn\'t eugenics. It\'s conceit.
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Bil Sloman, Sydney