Jiro comments on Thoughts on minimizing designer baby drama - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Jiro 13 May 2015 02:56:46PM 1 point [-]

My worry is less bureaucrats, for some of the reasons you describe (delayed gratification is not a characteristic of bureaucrats), but well-meaning social reformers. You can find an unending stream of people who will tell you that doing X or even believing X is antisocial behavior and a portion of them will want the next generation to be genetically programmed to avoid X and do Y instead--for everyone's own good, of course.

Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 13 May 2015 07:14:12PM 1 point [-]

Good point.