If this isn’t eugenics, what is it?

[Mick]

One of the tech alarmists about AI thinks we need to make smarter babies. He’s not alone. They’re seeking — and getting — IQ guarantees for embryos.

Inside Silicon Valley’s Growing Obsession With Having Smarter Babies – WSJ

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And separately, America has a baby bust (overall). Let’s face it, this has been an issue for decades. My great grandfather was one of 13 kids. My grandfather had four kids. My dad had four kids. I had two kids, and can’t afford any more.

Raising kids is expensive, at least to do it right. When my dad had his four kids, he was responsible for those four, plus two stepkids, six total. He fed us, clothed us, housed us, educated us. All while he played golf both days every weekend (he was a four handicap, terrific golfer). My parents basically let us raise ourselves. My single Mom literally did, she gave me a key to the apartment when I was nine, along with instructions for cooking, cleaning and laundry.

When my two kids were growing up, I played golf once a year and got the stinkeye for doing that — even though it was during the week as part of the company getaway day. I spent the bulk of my free time raising, educating, training my kids. Yes, it paid off, both graduated from Princeton. I’d have had a third child, but I couldn’t afford it financially, and didn’t have much bandwidth physically.

Millions of parents like me. Almost everyone I know has two or fewer kids. I know one guy with five kids, and two families with three kids. That’s it. And so…the baby bust.

How America’s Baby Bust Became an Election Issue – WSJ

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We have four and yes, it’s very expensive to have children and support them in a modern, upper middle class expectation set.

 

And, yes, that’s eugenics by just another name.  See the film Gattaca for a dramatization of scientific embryo selection.

 

 

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