If we actually had hi-tech eugenics, people would use it for virtue signalling. They'd engineer their kids to be more woke, they'd apply IQ penalties to people from unfashionable races (), etc.

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

"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

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.