China is engineering genius babies

[Num7]

It’s not exactly news that China is setting itself up as a new global superpower, is it? While Western civilization chokes on its own gluttony like a latter-day Marlon Brando, China continues to buy up American debt and lock away the world’s natural resources. But now, not content to simply laugh and make jerk-off signs as they pass us on the geopolitical highway, they’ve also developed a state-endorsed genetic-engineering project.

At BGI Shenzhen, scientists have collected DNA samples from 2,000 of the world’s smartest people and are sequencing their entire genomes in an attempt to identify the alleles which determine human intelligence. Apparently they’re not far from finding them, and when they do, embryo screening will allow parents to pick their brightest zygote and potentially bump up every generation's intelligence by five to 15 IQ points. Within a couple of generations, competing with the Chinese on an intellectual level will be like challenging Lena Dunham to a getting-naked-on-TV contest.

Geoffrey Miller, an evolutionary psychologist and lecturer at NYU, is one of the 2,000 braniacs who contributed their DNA. I spoke to him about what this creepy-ass program might mean for the future of Chinese kids.

Full article: China Is Engineering Genius Babies | VICE United States

 

[titorite]

I have known about the GMO babies for awhile... even posted about it here. But I always thought it was gonna be the rich elite to super charge their offspring..... I never saw the super socialist threat. ....

 

[Samstwitch]

 

[Justinian]

You know.. I always assumed that China has lasted like it has throughout history by never trying to be in the limelight as a superpower. I wonder why the change in policy over the last few decades?

 

[TimeTravel_00]

The Spartans were not the first to do this, nor will they be the last. Mother nature has always had 1 rule, survival of the fittest. That is the only rule.