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Comment author: passive_fist 07 December 2015 08:50:51PM 0 points [-]

Exactly. Most women demand attributes that they themselves find attractive in mates e.g. height and other appearance-related factors. Transhumanists don't make up most of the female population.

Comment author: Lumifer 07 December 2015 08:57:06PM 1 point [-]

Sure, but the great advantage of sperm banks is that you can easily filter a large number of possibilities.

At the lets-genetically-engineer-super-IQ level you'd probably want to start by paying the sperm bank for whole genome scans of several likely candidates.