Eugine_Nier comments on Constructing fictional eugenics (LW edition) - Less Wrong

16 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 29 October 2012 12:41AM

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 29 October 2012 02:15:25AM 6 points [-]

Because I don't think it's sufficiently widely appreciated, I'll quote the point from my comment here.

The difference is that with animal breeding you have a clear distinction between the people doing the breeding and the animals being bred. Humans breeding humans any attempt at being "scientific" is likely to collapse in the face of the resulting signaling games.