Nick_Tarleton comments on Savulescu: "Genetically enhance humanity or face extinction" - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 11 January 2010 10:32:21PM *  1 point [-]

The point about the anthropic issues are well taken, but I still contend that we should be skeptical of over-hyped predictions by supposed experts. Especially when they propose solutions that (apparently, to me) reduce 'freedoms.'

This is a legitimate heuristic, but how familiar are you with the object-level reasoning in this case, which IMO is much stronger?

Comment author: Zachary_Kurtz 11 January 2010 10:36:14PM 0 points [-]

not very. Thanks for the link.