attitude towards this sort of technology is highly predictive of several ideological schisms, including attitudes towards bioessentialism, class, and squeamishness

I look forward to inheriting the future with those who, like me, will do everything in their power to "show up"
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RT @Outsideness
Yes. https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/welcome-polygenically-screened-babies
https://twitter.com/Outsideness/status/1410458421585870848

I've long said to be waiting for this sort of genetic screen to be possible before having children, as there's no way I'm raising a seriously disabled child; finally, this is becoming feasible. I'm incredibly grateful to have been born just in time to acquire such capabilities

all of civilization represents Man's struggle against entropy, desperately staving off the encroaching chaos by carving out what semblance of order our powers can afford us

biotech enables us to gain control over our very beings, to take ownership

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RT @pee_zombie
this is exactly it, for me; everywhere I go, all i see is the enormous complexity of our supply chain, the massive feat of social engineering a globalized industrial civi…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1331092174071623680