Ok, you are changing the analogy. Initially you said, throw away the differences. Now you are saying throw away all but one of them.
So our revised approximation of the CEV is the expressed volition of … Craig Venter?!
Would that horrify the vast majority of humanity? I think it might. Mostly because people just would not know how it would play out. People generally prefer the devil they know to the one they don’t.
In the human genome project analogy, they wound up with one person’s DNA.
Humans have various eye colours—and the sequence they wound up with seems likely to have some eye colour or another.
Ok, you are changing the analogy. Initially you said, throw away the differences. Now you are saying throw away all but one of them.
So our revised approximation of the CEV is the expressed volition of … Craig Venter?!
Would that horrify the vast majority of humanity? I think it might. Mostly because people just would not know how it would play out. People generally prefer the devil they know to the one they don’t.
FWIW, it wasn’t really Craig Venter, but a combination of multiple people—see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Genome_Project#Genome_donors