The author only mentions heritability once in the article.
The author only mentions heritability once in the article. While educational attainment is also heritable people tend to view it as 'extrinsic.' The seemingly intrinsic nature of genetic modification is largely what drives moral reactions against it and the fact that any offspring will also retain those changes. This is of course also true for extrinsic factors that are also heritable but due to the quirk that human beings have a sense of their bodily self which is distinct from the rest of the universe we tend to distinguish between the two (probably to our detriment). That said people trying to distinguish use of any tool to 'fix' an abnormality vs 'enhance' something that is normal are idiots because the distinction is merely one of perspective around whether something is 'broken' or not. Frankly the world would be a whole lot better off if everyone had a IQ > 130 (functionally, since we would renormalize).
Posted by hyperion2010 on May 18, 2015, 10:30 PM
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I frankly find the situation around UB puzzling.
I think it depends a little on how and where you work.
Self modifying has some sneaky failure modes with modern CPUs.
> Ban phones from class.
Coolify v5.x
Are you talking about a technical problem, or a conceptual problem?
This is not uncommon in the more blue-collar businesses.
> I wonder though, do people not strace programs any more?
The author only mentions heritability once in the article.
The author only mentions heritability once in the article. While educational attainment is also heritable people tend to view it as 'extrinsic.' The seemingly intrinsic nature of genetic modification is largely what drives moral reactions against it and the fact that any offspring will also retain those changes. This is of course also true for extrinsic factors that are also heritable but due to the quirk that human beings have a sense of their bodily self which is distinct from the rest of the universe we tend to distinguish between the two (probably to our detriment). That said people trying to distinguish use of any tool to 'fix' an abnormality vs 'enhance' something that is normal are idiots because the distinction is merely one of perspective around whether something is 'broken' or not. Frankly the world would be a whole lot better off if everyone had a IQ > 130 (functionally, since we would renormalize).
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