OrphanWilde comments on Suppose HBD is True - Less Wrong

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Comment author: OrphanWilde 21 April 2016 03:25:13PM -2 points [-]

By the way, empirically people with both black and white ancestry have average IQs between the pure blacks and the pure whites. This seems to indicate that you don't get much by cross-breeding.

Not quite. It depends on who the mother is, and who the father is.

But I'm suggesting something slightly different: To the extent we engage in eugenics to improve our genetic lineage, we should be pulling genetics from every stock.

Comment author: Lumifer 21 April 2016 03:26:48PM 1 point [-]

To the extent we engage in eugenics to improve our genetic lineage

But we don't and are not very likely to start in the near future.

Comment author: OrphanWilde 21 April 2016 03:51:48PM -1 points [-]

Genetic modification isn't that far away, and in some respects with regard to some conditions genetic culling of reproductive cells is already here. Both are forms of eugenics.

Comment author: Lumifer 21 April 2016 03:59:05PM *  3 points [-]

Direct genetic modification CRISPR-style doesn't require any cross-breeding, you just insert the genes you like and delete the ones you dislike.

In any case, this has little to do with the usefulness of HBD claims.

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