ChristianKl comments on Open Thread, Aug. 8 - Aug 14. 2016 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ChristianKl 09 August 2016 09:33:06AM 1 point [-]

Not everybody who makes it to adulthood has kids. Various disabled people don't find a partner with whom to have kids.

I'm relatively confident that medical progress will be stronger than the effects you talk about in the next century. Sooner or later I expect genetic engineering to replace natural selection as the driving factor for human DNA, so the effects of the selection become less important.