I can’t see any problems here. It’s not like there’s a famous novel about why this is a terrible idea or a movie about it with Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman.

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    14 days ago

    Hmm. Do we have sufficient information in – and understanding of – DNA to reliably predict IQ?

    We can definitely screen for some things, genetic diseases and such. I’m just a little skeptical of the our ability to say “this is what the IQ of this embryo will be”.

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      Maybe their whole service doesn’t do any testing at all, it just auto sends a reply “We’re sorry, we think there is a strong chance your child will inherit genes related to lower than average intelligence.” to anyone dumb enough to pay them money.