We have to ensure that people
are meeting their potential.
And exceeding it?
No one exceeds his potential.
lf he did?
lt simply means that we didn’t accurately gauge his potential in the first place
The embryo is not even capable of reading or visual understanding or auditory understanding: 0 IQ points, better terminate pregnancy
Was gonna say this makes zero sense. IQ tests are extremely dubious at best even when personalized to the individuals cultural norms and mostly revolve around learned cultural behaviors and pattern recognitions that stem from those cultural behaviors. An embryo has not yet learned anything how could it have an IQ.
IQ tests were an absolute mistake to the point that even the dude who invented them tried to get people to stop using them.
Lol if the fascist eugenicists who are making this didn’t think IQ was a function of how much aryan blood you have in your veins they would have never made this garbage. Zero chance this isn’t descended from
’s grants for geneticists making eugenics apps. Did you hear about the eugenics dating app?That’s a thing? Of course that’s a thing
good quote OP, Gattaca is now 27 years old but it is still worth watching
I’ve ran into way too many techbro dipshits in the past that wanted to build the Torment Nexus from Gattaca. I’m not kidding. They thought the society was great as it was.
I’ll admit to thinking the society depicted was actually very cool when I first watched it and got in an argument with a friend about it. Media literacy is hard when you’re young okay
I understand.
The people I argued with about it were in their thirties and were well educated so they don’t get a pass.
The society in gattaca was very bad but from my hazy decade plus old memory of it the MC’s specific circumstance was like the worst possible example of why. Wasn’t he a guy with a congenital heart problem trying to get picked for a one-man mission to Jupiter?
Wasn’t he a guy with a congenital heart problem trying to get picked for a one-man mission to Jupiter?
He sure was. He didn’t fight the system; he just wanted to get his life achievement (while potentially endangering that mission after blast-off).
it’s actually pretty reasonable to screen astronauts for heart defects.
I too am hazy about a move I haven’t watched in 10+years.
Did he have a heart problem or did his genes make it more statistically likely to have/develop a heart problem?
(The internet seems to think that its the gene stastics things and not actually having been diagnosed with a heart defect.)
He had the heart problem
Using the tiniest of calipers to check skulls
Wow… caliper technology really has progressed quite a ways hasn’t it?
BEEP BEEP BEEPAmong the firm’s senior staff is the academic Jonathan Anomaly, who has caused controversy after defending what he describes as “liberal eugenics”.
The guy defending eugenics goes by “Mr. Anomaly”? Why do these stories always feature silly details like that
nominative determinism
probably even more pathetic, it is either his working name or he legally changed it for additional notoriety hype
Gattaca?
Welcome to pseudoscienctific eugenics. The baby has weak, human skin. Let’s graft it with the scales of a Komodo dragon. Oh no, it will have shit immune system. Let’s pair it with the immune system of a bat. What about fireproof body? Let’s give him a slime-secreting gland. Teeths broke? Let’s put in the tooth genes of a shark. What about water breathing? Hybrid lungs. Oh no, his puny human eyes can’t see colors? Let’s give him the compound eyes of a mantis shrimp.
But now he’s an entire different race? Let’s call him a Furyan.
don’t make it sound cool like that when they’re basically burning money to select embryos with large foreheads
makes zero sense, they would need a dataset showing every detail of an embryo and correlating it to IQ later in life, no such thing exists, period
eugenicist designer babies make far more sense with our current technology, reasonably you could measure what their eye color or hair color would be and abort if you didnt like it (wtf lol imagine putting your body through all of this just to get a baby like this)
Managers boasted their methods could produce a gain of more than six IQ points.
bro what a normal person can experience iq swings on a particular day greater than this just by not sleeping well
When I was looking up the numbers for my joke I came across this delightfully relevant stat:
About 42% of children change their score by 5 or more points when re-tested.
Eugenics as a Service.
“Well, considering the amount of money you’ve given us to provide this ‘service’, it’s safe to say you don’t need to worry about your child having an excessive IQ… In particular, I’d say there is about 66% chance of it being between 85 and 115.”Sorry kid, your parents didn’t pass the IQ test.
: “What if you could identify your baby’s IQ and abort it if it’s below Mensa levels?”
WHAT IF I COULD JUST AFFORD TO HAVE MY CHILD AND TAKE IT TO A DOCTOR???
I wish all eugenicists a safe trip to the deepest circle of hell
Westerners literally can’t help but be real life Viltrumites.
Every ten seconds they need to “purge the weak” or whatever.
