IQ?
Not be popular in da ‘hood.
Boy I sure am glad I was born when I was
I’m pretty skeptical that they can accurately predict IQ with embryonic DNA test. Sure, there’s a significant genetic component, but intelligence is a complex thing that can’t be fully explained by a few genetic markers. Even children with the same two parents can have a relatively wide range of possible IQs.
As most of us here on FR know, intellectual intelligence does not necessarily come hand in hand with emotional intelligence. Some people would make wonderful engineers or doctors, but don’t see any particular upside to concepts such as compassion, empathy, loyalty or even ‘truth’.
I see Nazi eugenics experiments are still alive and well.
GATTACA 1997 movie with Ethan Hawke, Una Thurman
Parents shopping for the perfect accessory children.
Gattaca anyone? You knew this was coming.
It will go first from picking the best embryos to adding enhancements to those embryos.
If this company can do what they say it means they have identified which human genes are associated with high and low intelligence, which is quite remarkable. This is “Brave New World” stuff. Also if they can do it on embryos they can also do it on adults and children. Lots of moral issues here.
They’ve already twisted themselves up with the competing ideas that the big A is perfectly fine at least through 9 months, but oops, there may be a question if severe disability or sex enter into that decision.