-----Original Message-----
From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky <sentience@pobox.com>
To: extropians@extropy.com <extropians@extropy.com>
Date: 18 December 1998 10:31
Subject: Uses of cloning
>The interesting one for me would be dumping 200 Einsteins into the
>populace and seeing what happened. The massive necessity of this logic
>must have somehow been lost on the rest of the human race, insofar as
>women haven't flocked to that sperm bank for geniuses someone started.
>I mean, I know that genius isn't heritable, but the kids aren't likely
>to be dumb either. Geez, give your kid a minimum IQ of 130, is that so
>much to ask? In retrospect, wouldn't you rather have had those
>Nobel-winning genes? So nobody will take advantage of the powers of
>cloning, either.
Samael