Selection of embryos based on polygenic scoring is a cute idea but is decades away at best.
Your ability to pick an appropriate partner to conceive a child with has been honed over 100,000′s of years (actually, more like ‘since sexual reproduction began’). However, it’s far from perfect and there are some gross genetic failings (existing and de novo) that genetic screening can recognise that aren’t obvious at the everyday scale of day to day living.
Selection of embryos based on polygenic scoring is a cute idea but is decades away at best.
Your ability to pick an appropriate partner to conceive a child with has been honed over 100,000′s of years (actually, more like ‘since sexual reproduction began’). However, it’s far from perfect and there are some gross genetic failings (existing and de novo) that genetic screening can recognise that aren’t obvious at the everyday scale of day to day living.
How can it be decades away if a couple of random “transhumanist” couples are already doing it? Mass adoption might be decades away, but lesswrongers are weird people who are often interested in early-adopting new technologies (like cryptocurrency, cryonics, etc). https://www.geneticsandsociety.org/biopolitical-times/first-polygenic-risk-score-baby