It seems like there could be a tail risk here of decreasing genetic variation and thereby increasing the impact of something like a pandemic. It also seems like this approach could lead to less diversity in ideas/art/businesses etc because genetic predispositions become a mono-culture.
Do you think either of these things are substantial worries? Am I misunderstanding something about what’s being suggested here?
Think of mutational load as errors. Reducing errors in the immune system’s genetic code should decrease the risk of pandemics. Reducing errors in people’s brains should greatly increase the quality of intellectual output. Hitting everyone in the head with a hammer a few times could, I suppose, through an extraordinarily lucky hit cause someone to produce something good that they otherwise wouldn’t but most likely the hammer blows (analogous to mutational load) just gives us bad stuff.
It seems like there could be a tail risk here of decreasing genetic variation and thereby increasing the impact of something like a pandemic. It also seems like this approach could lead to less diversity in ideas/art/businesses etc because genetic predispositions become a mono-culture.
Do you think either of these things are substantial worries? Am I misunderstanding something about what’s being suggested here?
Think of mutational load as errors. Reducing errors in the immune system’s genetic code should decrease the risk of pandemics. Reducing errors in people’s brains should greatly increase the quality of intellectual output. Hitting everyone in the head with a hammer a few times could, I suppose, through an extraordinarily lucky hit cause someone to produce something good that they otherwise wouldn’t but most likely the hammer blows (analogous to mutational load) just gives us bad stuff.