brian_jaress comments on This Failing Earth - Less Wrong

19 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 24 May 2009 04:09PM

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Comment author: brian_jaress 25 May 2009 09:24:51AM 2 points [-]

They were doing deliberate breeding with a notion of heredity?

Nearly everyone was doing that.

Eugenics always plays at sophistication, but it's rooted in very old (false) folk intuitions.