Improving People with Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis
Wealthy people are now using PGD, Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis to have offspring. This
allows them to have children without any major genetic diseases. Each year more and more
characteristics are being added to this procedure and by 2010 one will be able to have a child
which is typically more intelligent than the parents. Currently when smart people marry smart
people the principles of genetics combined with the phenomenon called reversion to the mean
says that their children will have capabilities that are between the average of the parents and the
average of society. With PGD, the average child will be totally related to the parents and yet
actually more capable than the parents. The irony here is that what will make this possible are the
computer systems and human genetic researchers. When a Galvin or a Gates decides to have
children, salesmen will call on them with glossy booklets describing how they will be able to
assure the birth of superior children for a fraction of the cost of raising them. Why buy a rent-a-
wreck and then try to polish it up when you can purchase a quality item? Why spend all day
discussing six sigma quality assurance for your products and then come home to a one-sigma
child production environment? The essence of this trend is that the ratio of IQ in moneyed
families to that of poor families will change dramatically. No longer will the rule be “take a billion
people (like India) and test them to select the few brilliant ones and send them to technical school
like IIT.” It will be “have your saleswomen quietly call on families making over $100k and
convince them to have brilliant children which can go to Harvard and MIT.” In other words, the
procedure will no longer look like an IQ lottery in which the poor have a reasonable chance
compared to the rich simply because of so many more poor people.
If no other progress is noted, the trend will be the increase in the IQ of the population of nations in
which PGD is popular. The normal bell-curve of IQ distribution will become bimodal. Magazine
articles will be talking about the “new rules.” More and more people will have PGD children until
it is the rule rather than the exception.
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Wealthy people are now using PGD, Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis to have offspring. This
allows them to have children without any major genetic diseases. Each year more and more
characteristics are being added to this procedure and by 2010 one will be able to have a child
which is typically more intelligent than the parents. Currently when smart people marry smart
people the principles of genetics combined with the phenomenon called reversion to the mean
says that their children will have capabilities that are between the average of the parents and the
average of society. With PGD, the average child will be totally related to the parents and yet
actually more capable than the parents. The irony here is that what will make this possible are the
computer systems and human genetic researchers. When a Galvin or a Gates decides to have
children, salesmen will call on them with glossy booklets describing how they will be able to
assure the birth of superior children for a fraction of the cost of raising them. Why buy a rent-a-
wreck and then try to polish it up when you can purchase a quality item? Why spend all day
discussing six sigma quality assurance for your products and then come home to a one-sigma
child production environment? The essence of this trend is that the ratio of IQ in moneyed
families to that of poor families will change dramatically. No longer will the rule be “take a billion
people (like India) and test them to select the few brilliant ones and send them to technical school
like IIT.” It will be “have your saleswomen quietly call on families making over $100k and
convince them to have brilliant children which can go to Harvard and MIT.” In other words, the
procedure will no longer look like an IQ lottery in which the poor have a reasonable chance
compared to the rich simply because of so many more poor people.
If no other progress is noted, the trend will be the increase in the IQ of the population of nations in
which PGD is popular. The normal bell-curve of IQ distribution will become bimodal. Magazine
articles will be talking about the “new rules.” More and more people will have PGD children until
it is the rule rather than the exception.
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