If we actually had hi-tech eugenics, people would use it for virtue signalling. They& #39;d engineer their kids to be more woke, they& #39;d apply IQ penalties to people from unfashionable races (https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🏳️" title="Wehende weiße Flagge" aria-label="Emoji: Wehende weiße Flagge">), etc.

There are powerful groups who, even today, actively support dysgenics. https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/1289674118648872960">https://twitter.com/Kirkegaar...

"Actress Sally Phillips, who has a child with Downs Syndrome, explains why that would make the world a poorer place"

Thanks for "explaining" that, Sally. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/oct/01/do-we-really-want-a-world-without-downs-syndrome-ds-prenatal-test">https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandst...

If we actually had eugenics, people would *deliberately* engineer their children to be disabled and they would apply social pressure to other people to do the same. It would be seen as a mark of high status to have a child with Down syndrome.

We desperately need to understand the political and memetic problem of how to make people *want* to improve themselves with technology, rather than wanting to use technology to destroy and disable themselves but look really virtuous in the process.