Comments on: How do these families keep producing such talent, generation after generation?

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 03:20:16 +0000

I’m sure I’ll be able to find an unmutated cell chilling out somewhere.

Alternatively it’s entirely possible that courtesy of the present global clinical trial I myself will simply live forever.

Hail Bourla! Hail Pfizer! *Heel click.*

By: Harry Jones

Harry Jones — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 01:07:49 +0000

That’s not how genetic disorders work.

It’s accumulated mutations. If you don’t compensate somehow — such as with interbreeding plus natural selection — they will cause ever increasing problems.

A naive approach to eugenics is a recipe for disaster. So is cloning, for the same reason.

By: Freddo

Freddo — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 13:36:12 +0000

A literal clone would of course only be as inbred as the original.

By: Harry Jones

Harry Jones — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 11:46:58 +0000

A clone is as inbred as inbred gets. Don’t be surprised if your clone has a Habsburg Jaw and mental issues.

Breeding for intelligence has a high failure rate, but you can make it up on volume.

We don’t hear about the morons these families produced. The ones they locked in the attic. I suspect cherry picking.

By: JT

JT — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 17:10:22 +0000

“Hero License — ie, most people don’t accomplish great things, because they don’t try to accomplish great things, because they don’t think of themselves as the kind of person who could accomplish great things.”

I suspect this is most of it, since it also explains how some successful people come from nothing. Many successful people forge their own hero license out of rebellion/retaliation to their upbringing.

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 07:01:37 +0000

I was obsessed with this question until I realized that I could simply clone myself.